AG Unit 1-7 Super Challenge

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

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

A form of government in which the supreme authority rests with the people

Great Charter forced upon King John of England by his barons in 1215; established that the power of the monarchy was not absolute and guaranteed trial by jury and due process of law to the nobility

An agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention that Congress should be composed of a Senate, in which each State would be represented equally, and a House, in which each State would be represented based on the State's population

those persons who supported the ratification of the Constitution in 1787–1788

A government that exists only with the consent of the governed

Those delegated powers of the National Government that are suggested by the expressed powers set out in the Constitution; those "necessary and proper" to carry out the expressed powers

The first ten amendments to the Constitution

The drawing of electoral district lines to the advantage of a party or group.