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| Articles of Confederation |
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| Document that set our country's first central government |
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| Supreme law and plan of national government in the U.S. |
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| Area of land that belongs to a government |
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| Lawmaking branch of government |
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| Governmental branch that carries out laws |
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| Governmental branch that determines law's meaning |
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| Head of the judicial branch of government |
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| An addition to a constitution or document |
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| An introduction to the constitution or document |
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| Government where people make the laws and control government |
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| Government where people elect representatives to run the country |
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| System where states and federal government share powers |
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| System in which one branch of government balances another |
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| Concept that each branch has specific governmental powers |
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| Group of people who share similar views of government |
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| Writer of the U.S. Constitution; "Father of the Constitution" |
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| Wrote newspaper articles to support the Constitution |
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