Government Vocabulary quiz #2

To stop buying or using certain goods and services as a protest

• Boycott

• Tyranny

• Representative Government

• Nobility

The paper that said the colonies would become a separate country

• Declaration of Independence

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of powers

• Federalism

The paper listing rules that the British monarch had to follow

• Magna Carta

• Representative Government

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

The paper listing the rights of the British people

• English Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• Veto

• Federalism

Judicial branch is the part of government that

• Makes the laws

• Interprets the laws

• Enforces the laws

• Vetos the laws

The idea that people are the supreme rulers of the government

• Popular sovereignty

• Separation of Powers

• Unconstitutional

• Checks and balances

The first plan for national government in the colonies

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Representative government

• Limited government

A government that must follow rules

• Representative government

• Limited government

• Constitutional congress

• Articles of Confederation

Each branch of the government has ways to limit the power of the other branches, which keeps the power equal among all the branches

• Checks and balances

• Judicial review

• Separation of powers

• Unconstitutional

The power of the courts to decide if laws and other government actions are allowed by the constitution

• Judicial branch

• Judicial review

• Nobility

• Popular sovereignty