Define Questions(AP FINAL)

**Define Veto**

**A rejection of a bill.**

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**Define Supremacy Clause**

**Laws passed and treaties approved by Congress shall be the highest in the land.**

**Define Stare Decisis**

**Judges are obliged to respect the precedent established by prior decisions.**

**Define Social Contract**

**An agreement among individual people in a society or between the people and their government that outlines the rights and duties of each party.**

**Define Separation of Powers**

**The division of power among the three branches of government.**

**Define Rule of Law**

**Principle that every member of society (including the rulers) must follow the law.**

**Define Resolution**

**A written motion adopted by a deliberative body.**

**Define Reserved Powers**

**Powers reserved only to states.**

**Define Ratification**

**To give formal approval.**

**Define Plurality**

**The largest number of votes in an election.**

**Define Legislative Branch**

**The branch that creates the laws.**

**Define Jurisdiction**

The authority of the court to rule on certain cases.

**Define Judicial Review**

**Power to declare an act constitutional or unconstitutional.**

**Define Judicial Branch**

**The branch that interprets the laws.**

**Define Inherent Powers**

**Powers the national government may exercises simply because it is government.**

**Define Inalienable Rights**

**Rights that cannot be taken away.**

**Define Implied Powers**

**Powers that the government requires to carry out the written powers in a constitution.**

**Define Gerrymandering**

**To manipulate an electoral area, usually by altering its boundaries, in order to gain an unfair political advantage in an election.**

**Define Filibuster**

**An attempt to kill a bill by having continuous speech so a vote cannot take place.**

**Define Federalism**

**A system in which power of government is divided among different levels (between national and state government)**

**Define Ex Post Facto**

**A law that makes a crime of an act that was legal when it was committed.**

**Define Common Law**

**The body of law developed or evolved as a result of custom and judicial decisions.**

**Define Cloture**

**A motion to end debate and to call for an immediate vote.**

**Define Civil Law**

**The body of law that developed from core principles codified into a referable system**

**Define Chain of Being**

**A belief that all forms of matter (including life) are organized from the basic to the highest perfection.**