8th: Unit 4 Vocab

Having two separate lawmaking chambers

• Bicameral

• Federalism

• Manumission

• Popular Sovereignty

A system by which each branch of government limits the powers of other branches so that one branch does not become too powerful

• Judicial Review

• Checks and Balances

• Bicameral

• Popular Sovereignty

To fall in value

• Executive Branch

• Limited Government

• Depreciate

• Bicameral

A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

• Electoral College

The branch of government that executes, or carries out, the law and that is headed by the President

• Executive Branch

• Legislative Branch

• Judicial Branch

A form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or national government and state governments

• Bicameral

• Federalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Depreciate

The branch of government that interprets the law; it includes courts that settle disputes and questions of the law

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

Power of the Supreme Court to say whether any federal, state, or local law or government action goes against the Constitution

• Checks and Balances

• Electoral College

• Judicial Branch

• Judicial Review

The lawmaking branch of government

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

Idea that a government may only use the powers given to it by the people

• Popular Sovereignty

• Limited Government

• Federalism

• Manumission