US Government Vocabulary

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  1. 4. Official change, correction, or addition to a law or constitution
  2. 6. An official approval
  3. 7. The division of the government that proposes bills and passes them into laws
  4. 12. Constitution and the Louisiana Purchase, president of the seventeenth ammendment, term of office
  5. 14. The first 10 amendments to the costitution
  6. 16. Constitution, and the impeachment, term of office, ways and means comitee
  7. 17. An agreement worked out at the constitutional conventional stating that only three-fifths in the state would count
  8. 18. The plan for government proposed at the constitutional convention in which the national government would have supreme power
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  1. 1. The division of the federal government that includes the president and the administrative government
  2. 2. The division of the federal government that is made up of the national courts, interpret laws and punishes criminals
  3. 3. Constitutional principle that divides government power into three branches, with each a different responsibility
  4. 5. The document that created the US Central Government
  5. 8. An agreement worked out at the constitutional convention establishing that a state's population would determine representation
  6. 9. An uprising of Massachussett's farmers, led by Daniel Shays, to protest high taxes, heavy debt, and farm foreclosures
  7. 10. US system of government in which power is distributed between a central government and individual states
  8. 11. A proposal to create a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states rather than representation
  9. 13. A set of basic principles that determines the power and duties of a government
  10. 15. A system developed by the constitution that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful