Chapter 1 Section 1

The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies

• compromise

• government

• sovereign

• state

All of those things a government decides to do (legislative acts and judicial decisions)

• public policy

• state

• constitution

• sovereignty

Future generations of people

• posterity

• liberty

• justice

• welfare

The U.S.'s first form of government

• Declaration of Independence

• U.S. Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

A body of people living in a defined territory who have a government with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority

• state

• territory

• confederation

• population

The state of being free within society

• liberty

• happiness

• welfare

• preamble

The power to interpret laws, to determine their meaning, and to settle disputes within the society

• judicial power

• executive power

• legislative power

The power to make a law and to frame public policies

• judicial power

• legislative power

• executive power

Having supreme power within its own territory

• posterity

• sovereign

• judicial

• constitution

The power to execute, enforce, and administer law

• judicial power

• legislative power

• executive power