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Unit #1 Foundations of U.S. Government Chapter #3 The United States Constitution
VOCABULARY
WORD BANK
supremacy clause
check and balance
elastic clause
amendments
judicial review
jurisdiction
Framers
veto
appeal
popular sovereignty
expressed powers
executive agreements
federalism
enumerate
judicial restraint
separation of powers
naturalization
SCORE
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Read the definitions below. Using the vocabulary words found in the word bank above, write the word that the definition
is describing in the blank provided.
VOCABULARY WORD
DEFINITION
System in which power is divided between the states and the national government
A principle that gives the court the power to rule on the constitutionality of a law or
action of local, state or national government
Powers that are stated directly in the Constitution
Additions to the U.S. Constitution
The source of the national government’s power comes from the people of the nation
Area of the law that a court may hear cases about
The process for people of other nations to become U.S. citizens
A clause that allows Congress to stretch the use of its powers
Informal documents made with other nations
A clause in Article VI that declares the Constitution, acts of Congress and treaties are the
“supreme Law of the Land”
To reject a bill by refusing to sign it
Each branch of government is given its own duties and responsibilities
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To number
When one party to a lawsuit requests a further hearing
To refrain from reading into the Constitution things that the Framers never meant
Each branch of government has duties that restrain the power of the other two branches
Writers of the Constitution