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  1. 1. a provision of the U.S. Constitution that states that the Constitution, federal law, and treaties of the United States are the "supreme Law of the Land"
  2. 4. group of persons chosen in each State and the District of Columbia every four years who make a formal selection of the President and Vice President
  3. 6. congressional act admitting a new State to the Union
  4. 7. those powers, expressed, implied, or inherent, granted to the National Government by the Constitution
  5. 10. those powers that the Constitution does not grant to the National Government and does not deny to the states
  6. 11. those delegated powers of the National Government that are spelled out, expressly, in the Constitution; also called the "enumerated powers"
  7. 12. A change in, or addition to a constitution or law
  8. 14. those delegated powers of the National Government that are suggested by the expressed powers set out in the Constitution; those "necessary and proper" to carry out the expressed powers
  9. 15. formal agreement entered into with the consent of Congress, between or among States, or between a State and a foreign state
  10. 18. the legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one State is returned to that State
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  1. 2. a pact made by the President directly with the head of a foreign state; a binding international agreement with the force of law but which (unlike a treaty) does not require Senate consent
  2. 3. The first ten amendments to the Constitution
  3. 5. those powers that both the National Government and the States possess and exercise
  4. 8. those powers which can be exercised by the National Government alone
  5. 9. a formal agreement between two or more sovereign states
  6. 13. powers the constitution is presumed to have delegated to the National Government because it is the government of a sovereign state within the world community
  7. 16. a congressional act directing the people of a United States territory to frame a proposed State constitution as a step toward admission to the Union
  8. 17. formal approval or final consent to the effectiveness of a constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty