Form of government; executive & legislative branches of govt. are separate, independent, & coequal.

The device by which a voter registers a choice in an election.

A proposed law presented to the House or Senate for consideration.

The legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state can be returned to that state.

Only Congress can do this on a foreign country.

A joining of several groups for a common purpose.

Printed at public expense, names of all candidates, given only at polls to voters, marked secretly.

A few weeks after the House and Senate are organized, the President gives this address to a joint session of Congress.

A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power.

The process by which citizens of one country become citizens of another.

Form of government; powers are divided between a central government & several local governments.

It outlawed discrimination in public places.

Deal with matters concerning either house alone & are taken up only by that house; adoption of new rule or amendment.

A government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed, group.

The House has the power to do this to government officials that abuse their positions. The Senate has the power to try them.

Form of government; executive branch has the prime minister, or premier, & that official's cabinet.

It eliminated the literacy test.

Most important/powerful position of Congress. It is the leader of the majority party. Follows VP in succession to the presidency

Congress only be able to exercise its expressed powers & those implied powers absolutely necessary to carry them out.

Any kind of money that a creditor must by law accept in payment for debts (est. 1863 by Congress).

Actually an economy; free enterprise system; characterized by private ownership, initiative, profit, & competition.

It banned the poll tax.

Serves in VP’s absence; leading member of majority party, usually its longest serving member; follows Speaker in presidential succession.

They favor a broad interpretation of the Constitution.

The constitutional basis for the implied powers is found in one of the expressed powers called this. It's been stretched.