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- 7. Enforces the laws.
- 11. Right of states to invalidate acts of Congress they believe to be illegal.
- 17. Authority of the president to block legislation passed by Congress. Congress can override a veto by a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
- 18. The presidential electors, selected to represent the votes of their respective states, who meet every four years to cast the electoral votes for president and vice president.
- 21. Compromise over slavery at the Constitutional Convention that granted states extra representation in the House of Representatives based on their number of slaves at the ratio of three-fifths.
- 24. Document Declaring independence from Great Britain.
- 26. makes the laws.
- 27. Initial governing authority of the United States, 1781–88.
- 28. power retained by the states under the constitution.
- 29. Government structure that authorizes each branch of government to share powers with the other branches.
- 30. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the national government.
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- 1. To formally withdraw from a nation-state.
- 2. Makes federal law supreme over state laws.
- 3. Powers not expressly granted to Congress but added through the necessary and proper clause.
- 4. Interprets the laws.
- 5. Those who opposed the new proposed Constitution during the ratification period.
- 6. Form of government in which power derives from citizens, but public officials make policy and govern according to existing law.
- 8. Form of democracy in which political power is exercised directly by citizens.
- 9. the fundamental law undergirding the structure of government.
- 10. Compromise on legislative representation whereby the lower chamber is based on population, and the upper chamber provides equal representation to the states.
- 12. View that states have strong independent authority to resist federal rules under the Constitution.
- 13. Powers expressly granted to Congress by the Constitution.
- 14. Formal process of changing the Constitution.
- 15. Government structure in which authority is divided among branches.
- 16. Initially, those who supported the Constitution during the ratification period; later, the name of the political party established by supporters of Alexander Hamilton.
- 19. Meeting in 1787 at which twelve states intended to revise the Articles of Confederation but ended up proposing an entirely new Constitution.
- 20. rule by the people.
- 22. First ten amendments to the Constitution, which provide basic political rights.
- 23. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the regional governments.
- 25. Doctrine holding that state governments and the federal government have almost completely separate functions.