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17 Cards in this Set
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constitution
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A government in which citizens rule themselves through elected representatives
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Bill of Rights
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Lists the freedoms that the governement will protest. Freedom of Speech, for example.
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Republic
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To change the Constitution.
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Dictatorship
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A government in which one person or small group holds complete authority
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Amend
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A document that sets out the laws, principles, organization, and process of government.
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Preamble
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Also means freedom
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Liberty
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The division of power between the federal and state governments
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Popular Sovereignty
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The feeling of love and devotion towards ones' country
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Limited Government
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All laws begin as proposals, callled these.
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Federalism
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The introduction to the Constitution
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This type of government has only those powers that the Constitution gives it.
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Bill
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The system of roads, bridges and tunnels.
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Override
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When the people have the right ton alter or abolish their government.
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Infrastructure
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To bring serious charges of wrongdoing against the President
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Appeal
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This means to overrule, Congress can do this to the President's veto.
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Impeach
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A person who enters another country in order to settle there.
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Immigrant
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Having a court decision reviewed by a higher court.
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Patriotism
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