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100
What is more common to use other than the use of checks and balances?
What is compromise
100
The Amendment process is based on what?
What is Popular Sovereignty
100
How Presidents have increased their Constitutional powers
What is taking a broad interpretation of powers
100
Government must be conducted according to Constitutional principles
What is Constitutionalism
100
Reject an act of Congress
What is a Veto
200
Separation of powers keeps a central government from being to what?
What is to powerful
200
The purpose of the Bill of Rights
What is individual freedoms and rights
200
Interprets the Constitution on a regular basis
What is the nation's courts (Supreme Court)
200
Change to the written words of the Consitution
What is an Amendment
200
Body made up of the head of the 15 executive departments that advise the President
What is a Cabinet
300
Identify the Principle: Both the federal and state governments can impose taxes.
What is Federalism
300
Identify the 3 amendments that occurred as a direct result of the Civil War
What is the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
300
Type of power the Constitution grants the President
What is executive power
300
Government and its officers must always obey the laws of the land
What is Rule of Law
300
Pact made by President directly with the head of a foreign state
What is an Executive Agreement
400
Identify the Principle: The Legislative Branch has the power to make the laws, the President does not
What is Separation of Powers
400
One of two ways to propose an amendment to the Constitution
What is two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress or What is a national convention called by Congress at request of two-thirds state legislatures
400
President's cabinet exists solely because of
What is customs
400
One of four ways to change or add to the written language of the Constitution
What is a Formal Amendment
400
Formal agreement between two or more states
What is a Treaty
500
The Constitution outlines our plan of government and restricts its powers.
What is Limited Government
500
One of two ways to ratify a proposed amendment to the Constitution
What is 3/4 vote by state legislatures or What is Conventions in 3/4 of the States
500
Constitutional Amendment that created 2-term Presidential limits
What is the 22nd Amendment
500
Power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a governmental action
What is Judicial Review
500
Body of electors that makes the formal selection of the President
What is the electoral college