Unit 1 Vocab Quiz Part 2

concept that government and its officers are always subject to the law

• Rule of Law
• Supremacy Clause
• Executive Agreement
• Due Process

the power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a governmental action

• Judicial Review
• Supremacy Clause
• Division of Powers
• Privileges and Immunities Clause

contrary to constitutional provision and so illegal, null and void, of no force and effect

• Amendment 
• Unconstitutional 
• Treaty
• Senatorial Courtesy

a change in, or addition to, a constitution or law

• Amendment
• Ratification
• Executive Agreement
• Rule of Law

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

• Executive Agreement
• Treaty
• Senatorial Courtesy
• Full Faith and Credit Clause

a formal agreement between two or more sovereign states

• Amendment
• Treaty
• Executive Agreement
• Necessary and Proper Clause

presidential advisory body, traditionally made up of the heads of the executive departments and other officers

• Cabinet
• Executive Agreement
• Federalism 
• Privileges and Immunities Clause

custom that the Senate will not approve a presidential appointment opposed by a majority-party senator from the State in which the appointee would serve

• Senatorial Courtesy
• Privileges and Immunities Clause
• Necessary and Proper Clause
• Supremacy Clause

a system of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central, or national, government and several regional governments

• Federalism
• Division of Powers
• Extradition
• Full Faith and Credit Clause

basic principle of federalism; the constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis (in the United States, between the National Government and the States)

• Division of Powers
• Supremacy Clause
• Rule of Law
• Executive Agreement