Ch. 6 Social Studies Vocab

signed or made official

• veto

• ratify

• suffrage

• inflation

a law

• veto

• ratify

• suffrage

• ordinance

when the price of goods increases while the value of money decreases

• popular sovereignty

• inflation

• suffrage

• separation of powers

a plan of government, usually written, but may be oral

• inflation

• ordinance

• constitution

• popular sovereignty

a system where each branch of government has ways of limiting the powers of the other states

• constitutional republic

• suffrage

• inflation

• checks and balances

a refusal to sign a bill into law

• veto

• constitution

• ratified

• ordinance

the idea that the government gets its power from the people and needs their consent to make laws

• suffrage

• popular sovereignty

• constitutional republic

• separation of powers

the right to vote

• veto

• ordinance

• suffrage

• ratified

the idea that the powers and duties of government are divided among separate branches

• popular sovereignty

• separation of powers

• suffrage

• constitution

a government in which officials are elected to represent the people, and then govern according to a constitution

• constitutional republic

• popular sovereignty

• separation of powers

• checks and balances