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12 Cards in this Set
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Amendments
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Changes, such as changes to the constitution
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Federalism
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The division of powers between the states and the federal, or national, government
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Concurrent powers
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Power shared by the federal and state governments
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Reserved powers
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Powers that the Constitution neither gives to Congress nor denies to the States
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Checks and balances
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The system that gives each of the three branches of government ways to limit the powers of the other two
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Impeach
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When a majority of members of the House accuse the President or other hi government officials, such as be federal judge, of serious wrongdoing
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Bicameral
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To house, as in a legislature with two houses
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Great compromise
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The plan agreed to it during the writing of the Constitution that created the House of Representatives, in which each state was given votes based on its population, and the Senate, in which each state was given equal votes
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Three fifths compromise
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The plan agreed to during the writing of the Constitution that counted each slave as three fifths of a person when a state population was calculated
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Ratified
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Approval of an amendment to the Constitution
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Federalists
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People who supported ratification of the Constitution because they supported a strong federal, or national, government
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Anti Federalists
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People who opposed ratification of the Constitution because they feared that a strong central government would endanger peoples liberties
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