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The American People
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights
The Legislative Branch
MISC.
100
Person who moves permanently to a new country
What is an immigrant?
100
Detailed, written plan for government
What is a constitution?
100
Harming someone's reputation by speaking lies
What is slander?
100
A two-part body
What is bicameral?
100
Vote taken when people respond with "Yea" or "No"
What is a voice vote?
200
Person who lives in a country, obeys the laws, and has protection from the government
What is a citizen?
200
Give formal approval
What is to ratify?
200
Formal request, often in the form of a letter
What is a petition?
200
Congressional powers that are not explicitly stated
What are implied powers?
200
Population count
What is a census?
300
Noncitizen
What is an alien?
300
A plan that determined the two-house structure of Congress
What is the Great Compromise?
300
Being tried twice for the same crime
What is double jeopardy?
300
Law that punishes a person without a trial by jury
What is bill of attainder?
300
Government by consent of the governed
What is popular sovereignty?
400
System in which all citizens meet to debate and vote firsthand
What is direct democracy?
400
supporters of a strong central government
Who are Federalists?
400
Following established legal procedure
What is due process?
400
Laws that make an act a crime after the act has been committed
What is an ex post facto law?
400
Legal process by which foreign persons become citizens
What is naturalization?
500
Government's control extends to nearly all aspects of the people's lives
What is totalitarian?
500
Powers specifically granted to the federal government
What are expressed powers?
500
Lawsuits involving disagreements rather than crimes
What are civil cases?
500
Projects that primarily benefit a lawmaker's home district or state
What is a pork-barrel project?
500
Outlawed slavery
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?