MAJORITY PARTY

PARTY WITH MOST POWER

AMMENDMENTS

OFFICIAL CHANGES TO A LAW OR CONSTITUTION

JUDICIAL REVIEW

THE SUPREME COURT'S POWER TO DECLARE ACTS OF CONGRESS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

LOOSE INTERPRETATION

WAY OF INTERPRETING THE CONSTITUTION THAT ALLOWS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTIONS THAT CONSTITUTION DOES NOT FORBID IT FROM TAKING

SEPARATION OF POWERS

THE DIVISION OF GOVERNMENT TO DIFFERENT BRANCHES THAT DEAL WITH DIFFERENT MATTERS

SPOIL'S SYSTEM

POLITICIANS PRACTICE OF GIVING GOVERNMENT JOBS TO THEIR SUPPORTERS

ELASTIC CLAUSE

IMPRESSMENT

BRITISH PRACTICE OF FORCING U.S PEOPLE TO JOIN THEIR NAVY

FEDERALISM

SYSTEM OF AUTHORITY WHERE CENTRAL POWER IS DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND STATES BUT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS MORE POWER

BILL OF RIGHTS

FIRST 10 AMMENDMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTION

SECEDE

TO FORMALLY WITHDRAW FROM AN ORGANIZATION USUALLY A COUNTRY

EMINENT DOMAIN

THE GOVERNMENT'S POWER TO TAKE PERSONAL PROPERTY

HABEAS CORPUS

CONSTITUTIONAL POWER AGINST UNLAWFUL INPRISONMENT

CABINET

GROUP MADE UP OF HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT THAT ADVISES PRESIDENT

TARIFF

TAXES O IMPORTS OR EXPORTS

VETO

TO CANCEL

CHECKS AND BALANCES

A SYSTEM MADE BY CONSTITUTION THAT PREVENTS ANY BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT OF BECOMING TO POWERFUL

EMBARGO

BANNING OF TRADE WITH A COUNTRY

RESERVED POWERS

POWERS RESERVED FOR THE STATE GOVERNMENT OR THE CITIZENS

CONCURRENT POWERS

POWERS SHARED BY FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS

PRECEDENT

AN ACTION OR DECISION THAT LATER SERVES AS AN EXAMPLE

DELEGATED POWERS

POWERS THAT ARE SPECIFFICALY GRANTED TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THE CONSTITUTION

STRICT INTERPRETATION

WAY OF INTERPRETING CONSTITUTION WHERE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ONLY TAKES ACTIONS THE CONSTITUTION SPECIFIES

Bill of Attainder

When a person is pronounced guilty without a trial by jury

civil liberties

rights and freedoms a citizen has

civil liberties

rights and freedoms a citizen has

commerce

TRADE

sedition

person is not allowed to speak against the country

Ex post facto law

something made before there was a law prohibiting it is not a crime

Senate

upper house of congress 2 delegates from each state

elector

member of the electoral college that goes to vote for the president

Term

time a president holds office

Treason

betraying your country

Doctrine of nullification

states can say a Congress Act is null and void

House of Representatives

Lower house of Congress delegates are determined by the state's population

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate State's of America

James Madison

Best notes during the constitutional Convention

Zebulon Pike

explored the west United States and climbed Pike's Peak

John Brown

Abolitionist who startes a revolt with 20 men in Harper's Ferry

George Washington

First President of the Unites States

Abraham Lincoln

Made the Emancipation Procalmation

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

Merriwether Lewis

&

William Clark

Lewis and Clark expedition and explored the west till they got to the Ocean

John Sutter

his worker was the first one to find gold in California

Napoleon Bonaparte

French emperor who sold Lousiana Purchase to the United States

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

WROTE STAR SPANGLED BANNER

DRED SCOTT

DRED SCOTT CASE WHERE SLAVES WERE NOT CONSIDERED HUMANS OR CITIZENS

JOHN JAY

JAY TREATY WHICH DID NOT SOLVE IMPPRESSMENT OR FREEDOM OF THE SEAS

ROBERT FULTON

CREATED FIRST SUCCESFUL STEAMBOAT, CLARENCE

STEPHEN DOUGLAS

PROPOSED THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT

JOHN MARSHALL

MADE SUPREME COURT HAVE ABILITY FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW

THOMAS JEFFERSON