Final Exam review

2. barrel projects, government projects and grants that primarily benefit the home district or state
4. people hired by private groups to influence government decision makers
6. decisis, the practice of using earlier judicial ruling as a basis for deciding cases
8. an agreement among a group of nations that prohibits them all from trading with a target nation
12. Carta, a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges.
14. order, a rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law.
15. to cancel a law

1. to refuse to purchase certain goods or services
3. Compact, a written plan for government to be used by the colonists.
5. Document that explains one side's position in a case
6. committee, permanent committees that continue their work from session to session in Congress
7. senatorial practice of talking a bill to death
9. those who opposed ratification of the Constitution
10. to send a case back to a lower court to be tried again
11. an agreement, or contract, among a group of people
13. a group of advisers to the president that includes the heads of 15 top-level executive departments