US CONSTITUTION

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  1. 2. enforces law
  2. 3. comprises the first ten amendments to the United States
  3. 6. the principle that the greater number should exercise greater power.
  4. 10. existing or occurring inside a particular country; not foreign or international.
  5. 11. a common title for the head of state in most republics
  6. 16. the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
  7. 18. a formal or official change made to a law, contract, constitution, or other legal document.
  8. 19. provides each branch of government with individual powers to check the other branches and prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
  9. 20. the highest court
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  1. 1. a mixed or compound mode of government that combines a general government with regional governments in a single political system
  2. 4. the division of a state's government into branches
  3. 5. the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people
  4. 7. the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct
  5. 8. explains laws
  6. 9. an aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity
  7. 12. political ideology centered on citizenship in a state organized as a republic.
  8. 13. authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people.
  9. 14. the House of Representatives and the Senate
  10. 15. Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry
  11. 17. a process under which executive