SS Chapter 14

a document that describes how a government will work

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitutional Convention

• constitution

• bill

the meeting called by the states in 1787 to improve the Articles of Confederation that instead wrote a new constitution

• school

• cabinent

• Constitutional Convention

• monarchy

the document that set up the first government of the United States; the government had limited power

• Articles of Confederation

• constitution

• compromise

• rule of law

a group of advisors to the president, including the heads of important departments in the executive branch

• impeach

• cabinet

• Constitutional Convention

• monarchy

a form of government in which the ruler is a king or queen

• monarchy

• England

• rule of law

• cabinet

the branch that carries out, or executes, laws

• tree branch

• judicial branch

• legislative branch

• executive branch

the branch that makes laws

• tree branch

• executive branch

• judicial branch

• legislative branch

to accuse or charge a government official, such as the president, with a crime or misconduct

• impeach

• remove

• compromise

• veto

the system under which each branch of government limits, or checks, the powers of the other branches

• compromise

• veto

• checks and balanches

• monarchy

to reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law, a power that belongs only to the president

• veto

• impeach

• remove

• rule of law