Government Vocabulary

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  1. 1. the right to vote
  2. 6. charging a public official with a crime in office for which they can be removed from power
  3. 8. jeopardy the provision in the 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that one may not be tried twice for the same crime
  4. 10. rights citizen's basic rights and freedom
  5. 11. representation the number of delegates in the House of Representatives based of population
  6. 14. corpus a court order directing that prisoner be brought to court and to show cause for his or her detention
  7. 16. the people represented by an elected official
  8. 17. a person chosen to act for or represent others, as at a convention
  9. 18. government the system of government in which power is held by the people and exercised indirectly through elected representatives
  10. 21. review the power of the courts to declare laws and actions of the government invalid if they violate the Constitution
  11. 22. a form of government in which political control is exercised by all the people, either directly or through their elected representative
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  1. 2. rights those rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizens specifically provided for and listed in the Constitution
  2. 3. government every individual including the governmental officials, must obey the law
  3. 4. formal approval
  4. 5. sovereignty a government in which the people rule. They have the supreme power in government
  5. 7. a government controlled by on person or a single group
  6. 9. the constitutional power of the president to refuse to sign a bill passed by Congress preventing it from becoming a law
  7. 12. a group that seeks to promote its own special interests at the expense of the common good
  8. 13. a system of government in which power is shared between the central (national) government and the states
  9. 15. to change
  10. 18. government citizens have the power to govern and citizens give power to leaders they elect to represent them and their interest
  11. 19. of powers each branch has a specific job and power so that no one branch would have all the power
  12. 20. Ordinance provided for the orderly expansion of people to the Northwest Territory. It provided for public education and outlawed slavery within the territory
  13. 22. process of law protection against arbitrary deprivation of life, liberty, and property
  14. 23. and balances the distribution and balancing of power among different branches of government so that no one branch is about to dominate the other