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Anti Federalists
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A term used to describe opponents of the Constitution during the debate over ratification
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Bill of Rights
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The first ten amendments to the Constitution include such rights as freedom of speech
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Checks and balances
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The elaborate system of divided spheres of authority provided by the US Constitution as a means of controlling the power of government the separation of powers among the branches of the national government federalism and different methods of selecting national officers are all part of the system
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Constitution
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The fundamental law that defines how a government will legitamately operate
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Constitutional democracy
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A government that is democratic in its provisions for majority influence through elections and constitutional in its provisions for minority rights and rule by law
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Delegates
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Elected representatives whose obligation is to act in accordance with the expressed wishes of the people they represent
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Democracy
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A form of government in which the people rule either directly or through elected representatives
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Denials of power
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A constitutional means of limiting government by listing those powers that government is expressly prohibited from using
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Electoral college
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An unofficial term that refers to the electors who cast the state's electoral votes
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Electoral votes
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The method of voting that is used to choose the US presidents each state has the same number of electoral votes as it has members in Congress by tradition electoral voting is tied to a state's popular vote the candidate with the most popular votes in a state received its electoral votes
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Federalists
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A term used to describe proponents of theConstitution during the debate over ratification
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Grants of power
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The method of limiting the US government by confining its scope of authority to those powers expressively granted in the Constitution
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