Chapter 10 Vocabulary

level of government that deals with national matters

• national government

• local government

• central government

• state government

system in government that gives each branch the power to check, or limit, the power of other branches

• checks and balances

• power balancing

• limited government

• weights and scales

loose alliance of countries, states and other political units in which each unit maintains most or all power over itself

• constitution

• allegiance

• allies

• confederation

to spread out power of control rather than focus it in one person or governing body

• remove

• decentralize

• ratify

• elaborate

advocating for extreme political or social change, especially by challenging the foundations of a particular government

• suffrage

• crazy

• radical

• opposition

to give formal approval to something so it can become legal or valis

• ratify

• approve

• declare

• decentralize

government responsible for matters affecting the people in a state that are not handled by the federal government

• national government

• local government

• central government

• state government

the right to vote

• emancipation

• suffrage

• legal

• voter registration

a majority that is greater than 50 percent, often much greater

• over majority

• major majority

• supermajority

• the most

person whose job is to determine the size, shape and boundaries of land

• landscaper

• surveyor

• acreage finder

• land shaper