AP Gov: Essential Vocab

4. Your freedoms do not end at the schoolhouse gate.
11. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.
12. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
13. An example of this is when the executive branch vetoes laws passed by the legislative branch.
14. Reserves powers not delegated to the national government to the states and the people.
18. Powers that are shared by both the federal government and state governments.
19. Requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court.
20. Vermin Supreme is a proud member of what party?
21. Primary author of the U.S. Constitution.
22. What is the most common ideology most Democrats hold?
23. A political system where there is more than one center of power.
25. One very very very very very large bill that encompasses many separate bills.
26. What amendment was selectively incorporated by McDonald v Chicago?

1. Proposed a bicameral (or two-house) legislature in which states' votes depended on their population.
2. The case-by-case approach of deciding which portions of the Bill of Rights apply to states.
3. The ability of the Court to declare a Legislative or Executive act in violation of the Constitution.
5. A government in which one party controls the white house and another party controls one or both houses of Congress.
6. Any voting procedure in which the candidate with the most votes gets all of the seats or delegates at stake.
7. A system of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government.
8. The division of power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
9. James Madison wrote this to warn of the dangers of factions.
10. The supreme law of the United States.
15. Friend of the court.
16. The legal principle of determining points in litigation according to precedent.
17. What constitutional provision was used by the Justices in U.S. V Lopez?
24. What was the name of the horse Mr.Spruil rode to slay the dragon of despair? Hint: Mr.Spruil doesn't know either.