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VOCABULARY
GOVERNMENTAL PRINCIPLES
BRANCHES OF GOVT
MAINTAINING BALANCE
THE FEDERAL SYSTEM
100
The first written plan of government for the United States?
Articles of Confederation
100
One document from which our founding fathers took ideas when creating the constitution.
What is the Magna Carta or the English Bill of Rights.
100
How many branches of goverment does the United States have?
What is 3 branches?
100
The system in which each branch has some control or power over the actions of the other branches.
What are checks and balances?
100
Identify the multiple levels of a federal system?
What are the national and state government?
200
A country governed by elected officials.
What is a republic?
200
One power that a government must have to be successful?
What is the ability to tax?
200
What branch of government would make a law related to taxes?
Who is the legislative branch?
200
The main power that the President has over Congress?
What is a veto?
200
Reserved powers belong only to this level of government?
What is Federal?
300
The constitutional system that shares power between the state and national government.
What is federalism?
300
The reason that the founding fathers created a government with multiple branches instead of only one?.
What is to prevent tyranny.
300
The branch of government that controls the FBI, IRS, and other law enforcement agencies.
What is the executive branch?
300
This branch of government must approve the President's choice of new judges.
What is the legislative?
300
All powers not reserved for the national government belong to this level.
What are the States?
400
When the President refuses to sign a bill.
What is veto?
400
The government should represent the interests of both the people and the individual states. The states interest is represented in this chamber.
Who is the senate?
400
This case says that the judicial branch of government can review laws to determine whether or not they are constitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
400
The idea that no two branches of government can have the same power.
What is separation of power?
400
The document that created our federal system.
The Constitution
500
The idea that the government's authority comes from the people or said differently "the people rule".
What is popular sovereignty?
500
Because we want consistency in the decisions of our judges, federal judges serve for this term?
What is a life term?
500
435 people are members of this chamber of the legislative branch.
What is the house of representatives?
500
The reason that the framers created a system of checks and balances.
What is to prevent a single branch of government from becoming too powerful?
500
The sharing of power between the national and the state government.
What is Federalism?