Law Chapter 3 Vocabulary

change or alteration

• amendment
• Articles of Confederation
• legal duties
• sovereignty

loose form of charter for common government adopted by the 13 colonies prior to the adoption of the Constitution

• Bill of Rights
• impeachment cases
• Articles of Confederation
• US Constitution

first ten amendments to the Constitution

• democracy
• sovereignty
• US Constitution
• Bill of Rights

personal, human rights recognized and guaranteed by the US Constitution

• amendment
• civil rights
• impeachment cases
• political party

document drafted by representatives of the 13 original colonies that asserts the rights desired by the colonists

• Articles of Confederation
• Declaration of Independence
• US Constitution
• amendment

governmental system in which citizens vote directly to decide issues

• democracy
• Articles of Confederation
• impeachment cases
• republic

constitutional requirement for fundamental fairness in our legal and court system

• civil rights
• amendment
• political party
• due process of law

trying a government official for misconduct in office

• republic
• Articles of Confederation
• impeachment cases
• amendment

obligations or standards of conduct toward other persons that are enforceable by law

• legal duties
• democracy
• system of checks and balances
• Articles of Confederation

benefits to which a person is justly entitled by law

• system of checks and balances
• Bill of Rights
• civil rights
• legal rights