Ch. 13

4. postponement of a sentence
5. the authority to determine the constitutionality of laws passed by congress and state legislatures and any actions taken by the executive branch
7. the decision of a jury
9. the authority to review a case that has already been tried and decided in a lower court
12. possessing supreme powers
13. those powers specially given to congress in the constitution
16. the first ten amendments to the U.S constitution,adopted in 1791,which enumerate the rights of american citizenship
17. legal forgiveness of a crime
18. a group of citizens chosen from a list of registered voters to hear evidence in a trial and to determine the guilt or innocence of the person on trial
19. a small group of representatives or senators who study bills on a particular subject and make recommendations to the full membership of each house
20. a joint committee made up of members of both houses of the legislature, whose purpose is to work out differences between different versions of a bill
21. to approve

1. a way for citizens to submit constitutional amendments to the MS legislature
2. a clause in article 1 section 8 of the U.S.constitution that gives congress the authority to make a laws "necessary and proper"for carrying out the expressed powers granted in the constitution
3. the body of presidential electors that has the power to choose the president
6. having two houses(like the legislature)
8. a tax where the more a person earns the larger percentage of that income a person pays in taxes
10. the authority to hear a case for the first time
11. the authority that the government has to take private property from citizens for public use
14. powers that are given to congress i the last paragraph of article 1 section 8
15. to reject or refuse to sign (a bill)
16. a legal issue involving a personal or an or an organization’s inability to pay its debt