Government Vocab Review

Where the powers of the government are divided up between the federal, state and local governments

• checks and balances
• compromise
• legislative branch
• separation of powers

a system of government in which all eligible citizens vote on representatives to pass laws for them

• preamble 
• representative democracy
• separation of powers
• articles of confederation

The first 10 Amendments of the U.S. Constitution that outlines basic rights

• republic
• Constitution
• Bill of Rights
• Amendment

America's first constitution that failed because it was too weak

• representative democracy
• Articles of Confederation
• Separation of Powers
• preamble

Branch of the government that MAKES THE LAWS. Has two parts.

• checks and balances
• executive branch
• judicial branch
• legislative branch

A person who makes decisions on the opinions of a group of people

• amendment
• representative
• Bill of Rights
• Constitution

a state in which power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and that has an elected President.

• Bill of Rights
• Republic
• compromise
• representative

where two sides of an issue come to an agreement and both sides have to give up something

• judicial branch
• compromise
• checks and balances
• separation of powers

The introduction to the Constitution

• compromise
• preamble
• Articles of Confederation
• representative democracy

Where one branch of the government checks on the other 2 branches so that no one branch has too much power

• checks and balances
• separation of powers
• legislative branch
• judicial branch