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Having two separate law-making chambers
what is Bicameral?
To exist in...
what is to Reside?
a longstanding cultural belief and practice
What is a tradition?
To Change or revise
What is Amend?
a meeting
What is a convention?
A law
What is an ordinance?
What is depreciate?
a special condition in a formal document
What is a special condition in a Clause?
Settling a dispute by each party giving up some demands
What is a Compromise?
A system by which each branch of government limits power of other branches
What is Checks & Balances?
the lawmaking branch of government
What is the Legislative Branch?
the branch of government that executes, or carries out, the law; Headed by the president
What is the Executive Branch?
The branch of government that includes the courts that settle disputes and questions of the law?
What is the Judicial Branch?
A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives, according to a plan of government
What is a republic?
Sharing power between the federal and state government
what is federalism?
a change, correction, or improvement added to a document
What is an amendment?
a period of time when economic activity slows and unemployment increases.
What is a depression?
The freeing of individual enslaved persons
What is manumission?
the special group of electors chosen to vote for president and vice president
What is the Electoral college?
having the proper size in relation to other objects or items
What is proportional?