TCI Lesson 14 & 15 Vocab

the document that set up the first government of the United States; the government had limited power

• constitution

• executive branch

• legislative branch

• Articles of Confederation

the meeting called by the states in 1787 to improve the Articles of Confederation that instead wrote a new constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitutional Convention

• judicial branch

• cabinet

a document that describes how a government will work

• legislative branch

• Constitutional Convention

• constitution

• veto

the branch that makes laws

• legislative branch

• executive branch

• judicial branch

• constitution

the branch that carries out, or executes, laws

• legislative branch

• executive branch

• judicial branch

• constitution

the branch that interprets laws and settles disagreements about them

• legislative branch

• executive branch

• judicial branch

• veto

an agreement in which each side gives up some of what it wants

• veto

• impeach

• cabinet

• compromise

a group of advisors to the president, including the heads of important departments in the executive branch

• impeach

• compromise

• cabinet

• constitution

to accuse or charge a government official, such as the president, with a crime or misconduct

• impeach

• veto

• compromise

• checks and balances

to reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law, a power that belongs only to the president

• legislative branch

• constitution

• veto

• impeach