US Gov Ch. 3 Vocabulary

System of overlapping the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to permit each branch to check the actions of the others.

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• Formal Amendment

• Federalism

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

• Article

• Preamble

• Constitutionalism

• Amendment

Introduction.

• Preamble

• Articles

• Section Header

• We the People.

The first ten amendments to the Constitution.

• English Bill or RIghts

• Bill of Attainder

• Bill of Rights

• Writ of Habeas Corpus

Concept that holds that the government and its officers are always subject to the law.

• Rule of Law

• Constitutionalism

• Bicameralism

• Democracy

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

• Congress

• Advisory Committee

• Cabinet

• Officers Committee

Group of persons chosen in each State and the District of Columbia every four years who make a formal selection of the President and Vice President.

• UC College

• Electoral Advisory Committee

• NSA

• Electoral College

Chief executive’s power to reject a bill passed by a legislature.

• Amendment

• Veto

• Treaty

• Executive Agreement

Basic principle that government and those who govern must obey the law; the rule of law.

• Federalism

• Rule of Law

• Formal Amendment

• Constitutionalism

Numbered sections of a document. The unamended Constitution is divided into 7 __________.

• Articles

• Amendment

• Change

• Preamble