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- 3. The judicial branch of government, it tries cases involving government and administers justice.
- 6. A system whereby each branch of government has the ability to limit the actions of the other branches.
- 8. Elected officials who make the laws for the state.
- 9. The term for the fact that the powers of government are divided into three separate branches.
- 10. A note or guarentee issued by the government promising to repay money it borrows, with interest.
- 12. An assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- 13. Having to do with the chief officer of a government.
- 14. A series of laws in a constitution that protects specific rights of citizens.
- 15. The elected executive head of a state of the US.
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- 1. One of the constituent states of the newly established United Mexican States.
- 2. A type of government in which powers and duties between the states and the national government are shared.
- 4. The lower house of the United States Congress with 435 popularly elected officials from each state.s
- 5. a political power that a constitution reserved exclusively to the jurisdiction of a particular political authority.
- 7. An addition to a formal document such as a constitution
- 11. The highest judicial court in a country or state.