government

one of seven main divisions of the body of the Constitution

• 2nd amendment

• article

• ratify

• elastic cause

changes to the Constitution

• repeal

• impeach

• militia

• amendment

to approve

• ratify

• restraint

• public policy

• elastic cause

a list of items, found in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, that set forth the authoritative capacity of Congress

• sunshine law

• enabling act

• enumerated powers

• reserved laws

clause in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that gives Congress the right to “make all laws necessary and proper” to carry out the powers expressed in the other clauses of Article I.

• elastic cause

• convention

• probable cause

• preemption

the limits or territory within which authority may be exercised

• federal grant

• extradite

• jurisdiction

• mandate

the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws and actions of local, state, or national governments unconstitutional

• interstate compact

• concurrent powers

• federal grant

• judicial review

a meeting held for the purpose of proposing and voting on amendments; a meeting where political party members who have been chosen as delegates from each state vote for the candidate supported by their state’s voters

• criminal justice process

• convention

• federal grant

• impeach

to revoke by legislative enactment

• restraint

• probable cause

• sunset law

• repeal

the process by which the Bill of Rights was extended to the states and localities

• incorporation doctrine

• public policy

• reserved powers

• elastic cause