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13 Cards in this Set
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Centralized Government / Republic
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A government without a monarch; a government rooted in the consent of the governed, whose power is exercised by elected representatives responsible to the governed.
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Decentralized Government / Confederation
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A loose association of independent states that agree to cooperate on specified matters.
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Articles of Confederation
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The compact among the thirteen original states that established the first government of the United States.
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Republicanism (representative democracy)
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A form of government in which power resides in the people and is exercised by their elected representatives.
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Separation of Powers
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The assignment of lawmaking, law-enforcing, and law-interpreting functions to separate branches of government.
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Checks and Balances
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A government structure that gives each branch some scrutiny of and control over the other branches.
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Federalism
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The division of power between a central government and regional governments.
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Bicameralism
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Having two branches or chambers of a legislative body.
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"Great Compromise"
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Submitted by the Connecticut delegation to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and thus also known as the COnnecticut Compromise, a plan calling for a bicameral legislature in which the House of Representatives would be apportioned according to population and the states would be represented equally in the Senate.
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Supremacy Clause
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The clause in Article VI of the Constitution that asserts that national laws take precedence over state and local laws when they conflict.
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Implied Powers
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Those powers that Congress needs to execute its enumerated (mentioned) powers.
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Enumerated Powers
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The powers explicitly granted to Congress by the Constitution.
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The "elastic" clause / Necessary and proper clause
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The last clause in Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution, which gives Congress the means to execute its enumerated powers. This clause is the basis for Congress's implied powers.
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