Enumerated Powers | | Interprets the law |
Reserved Powers | | A president can only serve two terms |
Due Process | | Powers split among the Executive, Judicial and Legislative Branches |
Judicial Branch | | Enforces the laws |
Congressional Action | | Government not having complete control |
Customs/Traditons | | Makes national laws that applies to all states |
Equal Protection | | Makes the laws |
Executive Order | | The person whom is next in line to be president |
Presidential Succession | | Established legal procedures |
Constitutional Convention | | Powers not directly in the Constitution |
Executive Branch | | People whom owe loyalty to the government |
Amending the Constitution | | Things that the US does that are not enforced |
Flexibility | | Powers of the national government |
Federalism | | The beginning of the Constitution |
Term Limits | | Power of the Supreme Court to say when things are unconstitutional |
Concurrent Powers | | Branches of government working together t make sure no one has too much power |
Popular Sovereignty | | Given to every state about judicial proceedings, public acts and records |
Suffrage | | The meeting of the states leading to the Constitution |
Supremacy Clause | | Power given to the states |
Limited Government | | How people interpret the laws in the government |
Elastic Clause | | Power that lies wth the people not just the government |
Separation of Powers | | To change, add or remove things from the Constitution |
Citizenship | | Congress having the right to make all laws necessary and proper |
Judicial Decisons and Review | | The right to vote |
Implied Powers | | Power shared by the state and federal governments |
Full Faith and Credit Clause | | A command that was the power of a law |
Checks and Balances | | When power is divided between nation government and the states |
Legislative Branch | | Keeps states from denying people their protection |
Preamble | | The making of laws already and to be |