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49 Cards in this Set
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First ten Amendments of the Constitution
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The Bill of RIghts
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Changes in or additions to, a Constitution
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Amendment
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Status of being a member of a state
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Citizenship
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Constitutional mechanisms that authorize each branch of government to share powers with the other branches and thereby curb their activities
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Checks and balances
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government by, for , and of the people
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Democracy
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Form of government in which people completely exercise political decisions
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Direct Democracy
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the group of electors that cast the official votes for the head of the executive branch
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Electoral college
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Distribution of power in a government between a central authority and states
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Federalism
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Institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled
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Government
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Gives Congressthe right to make all laws that are necessary and proper to carry out the powers expressed (delegated in the Constitution
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Elastic Clause
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All the goals a government sets and the various courses of action it pursues as it attempts to realize these goals.
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Public policy
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The Great Charter forced upon King John of England in 1215 by his Barons, states that the power of the monarch is not absolute.
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Magna Carta
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those who already hold office
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incumbency
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A population count that happens every ten years
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Census
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Type of committee that does most of the lawmaking work in Congress
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Standing committee
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A person from a legislator's district
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Constituent
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A draft, or proposed legislation
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Bill
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formal accusations of misconduct in the office against a public official
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impeachment
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Power is given to the member of Congress who served the longest consecutive period of time.
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seniority
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Mesopotamia
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Semites
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Ziggurats
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Flax
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Stylus
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Fertile Crescent
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Dynastry
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Hummurabi
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Moses
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Nebuchadnezzar
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Darius I
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Zoroaster
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Patriarchial
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Confederation
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City-state
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Cuneiform
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Babylonians
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Bureaucracy
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Sargon I
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Gilgamesh
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Abraham
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Solomon
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Epic
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Legendary
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Cyrus II
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Xerxes
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Monotheism
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Barter
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Exodus
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Theocracy
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