Unit 2 Terms: Road to the Constitution

Bicameral means that the legislative branch has

• veto power over the president
• the power to raise taxes
• is a two house system
• can impeach the president

A lawmaking body

• Legislature

• Precedent

• Parliament

• Common Law

English legislature that drew up the English Bill of Rights in 1689.

• Legislature

• Precedent

• Parliament

• Common Law

A ruling in an earlier legal case that is similar to the current case.

• Legislature

• Precedent

• Parliament

• Common Law

System of law based on precedent and customs.

• Legislature

• Precedent

• Parliament

• Common Law

A written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments.

• Charter

• Compact

• Mercantilism

• boycott

An agreement

• Charter

• Compact

• Mercantilism

• boycott

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

• Charter

• Compact

• Mercantilism

• boycott

Refuse to buy as a punishment or protest

• Charter

• Compact

• Mercantilism

• boycott

a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

• repeal

• delegate

• Mercantilism

• Colony