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a separate clause or paragraph of a legal document or agreement, typically one outlining a single rule or regulation.
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| the official power to make legal decisions and judgments. |
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| Article VI, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, known as the Supremacy Clause, establishes the U.S. Constitution, federal statutes, and U.S. Treaties as "the supreme law of the land." The text provides that these are the highest form of law in the U.S. legal system, and mandates that all state judges must follow federal law when a conflict arises between federal law and either the state constitution or state law of any state. |
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| an article added to the US Constitution. |
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| Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people is the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, or elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power. It is closely associated with republicanism and social contract philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Popular sovereignty expresses a concept and does not necessarily reflect or describe a political reality.[a] It is usually contrasted with the concept of parliamentary sovereignty, and with individual sovereignty. |
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| the federal principle or system of government. |
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| an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies. |
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| counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups. |
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| a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body. |
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| review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act. |
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Republican (form of government, not party) |
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| Representative democracy (also indirect democracy) is a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy. All modern Western-style democracies are types of representative democracies; for example, the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and Poland is a parliamentary republic |
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| In a limited government, the power of government to intervene in the exercise of civil liberties is restricted by law, usually in a written constitution. It is a principle of classical liberalism, free market libertarianism, and some tendencies of liberalism and conservatism in the United States. |
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| Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. The landmark decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government. |
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| Powers that are expressed in the constitution |
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| The enumerated powers are a list of items found in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution that set forth the authoritative capacity of Congress. |
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| a provision in Article One of the United States Constitution, located at section 8, clause 18. |
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| It's where most of the money stays that was supposed to go to what ever it was started for in the first place. |
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| A landmark 1819 Supreme Court decision establishing Congress's power to charter a national bank and declaring unconstitu tional a tax imposed by Maryland on the bank's Baltimore branch. |
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| sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid |
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