CH 9 Vocabulary

firmly favoring one party or faction

• cabinet

• bond

• partisan

• impressment

a group of advisers to a president

• sedition

• caucus

• nullify

• cabinet

a meeting of members of a political party to choose candidates for upcoming elections

• alien

• cabinet

• bond

• caucus

certificate that promises to repay the borrowed money in the future

• bond

• partisan

• nullify

• states rights

a person living in a country who is not a citizen of that country

• alien

• sedition

• cabinet

• impressment

seizing people against their will and forcing them to serve in the military or other public service

• impressment

• states rights

• precedent

• nullify

the idea that states should have all powers that the Constitution does not give the federal government or forbid to the states

• states rights

• partisan

• bond

• precedent

something done or said that becomes an example for others to follow

• precedent

• nullify

• alien

• partisan

to legally overturn

• nullify

• alien

• bond

• impressment

activities aimed at weakening the established government

• sedition

• nullify

• bond

• caucus