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15 Cards in this Set
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SEGREGATED means:
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seperated on the basis of race
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SEPERATION OR POWERS
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delegates in the constitutional convention revived this principle which was once proposed by French Baron de Montesquieu in "The Spirit of Laws"
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INALIENABLE RIGHTS means:
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rights that governments could never take away
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UNCONSTITUTIONAL
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violating the constitution
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CONFEDERATION means:
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alliance of independent states
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FEDERALISM
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for of government in which governmental authority was divided between national and state governments
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RATIFY means:
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to approve
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CONCURRENT POWERS
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powers that the constitution granted to both the state and national government
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POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY means:
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people are the source of the governments power or authority
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RESERVED POWERS are:
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powers that the constitution did not grant directly to the national government - and were given to the states
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DELEGATED POWERS
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the rights that the constitution gave specifically to the national government
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IMPEACH
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accuse
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MANUMISSION means:
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freeing of slaves
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BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE means:
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a legislature with two houses, lower and upper. making the power split between the two
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SQUATTERS are:
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people who had moved into the new territory and established homesteads without complyin with the ordinance
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