Document that sets out the laws and princples of a government

Carry out

First 10 amandments of the Constitution

Period durring which busisness activity slows, prices and wages fall, unemployment raises

Legislative

Branch

(Congress)

Part of the government that passes laws

Executive Branch

(President)

Part of the government that carries out laws

Judicial Branch

(Supreme Court and other Court Systems)

Part of the government that decides if laws are carried out fairly

Settlement in which each side gives up some of its demands in order to reach an agreement

Nation in which voters elect representatives to govern them

System in which the power of a government is devided among seperate branches

Division of power between the states and the national government

Group of electors from each state that meets every four years to vote for President and Vice President

System set up by the Constitution in which each branch of the federal government has the power to check, or control, the actions of other branches

Proposed law

Reject

Overrule. Congress can override a President's veto if two thirds of both houses vote to do so

Bring formal charges against an official such as the President

Change

right of every citizen to the same fair rules in all cases brought to trial