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| Electoral College | a group of representatives who votes for presidential candidates based on the popular vote in their state. |
| Enumerated Powers | for Fed govt: coin money, regulaten interstate and foreign trade, maintain armed forces and create federal trade |
| Reserved Powers | for states: to establish schools, pass marriage and divorce law and regulate intrastate trade |
| Concurrent Powers | for fed and state: raise taxes, borrow money, provide welfare, administer criminal justice |
| Separation of Powers | the system established in the Constitution to give each branch a different responsibility for law in the United States and thus keep any one branch from becoming too powerful |
| Check and Balances | A system that gives each of the 3 Branches ways to limit the powers of the other branches. |
| Veto | # Disapproval of a bill or resolution by the President. |
| How a bill becomes a law | Begin -> Propose -> Introduce -> Committee ->Subcommittee ->Report -> Consider -> Vote -> Refer to Senate -> Bill Is Enrolled ->Law OR Veto <-> Veto Override |
| Joint Committee | A committee composed of Members of both the House and Senate. Members meet to consider specific issues such as federal taxation |
| Caucus | a meeting of a political party, usually to appoint representatives to party positions. |
| Primary | an election to choose a political party’s candidate to run in the general election. Private Vote as opposed to a caucus which is a public form |
| Democrat | A politician, frequently a Liberal, who seeks to further his or her political career by complaining about issues as poverty, environmental destruction, job loss, education, and healthcare, while failing to address the primary concerns of Americans everywhere |
| Republican | can Partybelonging to or supporting the Republi in the United States |
| Supreme Court | the highest court in the judicial branch of the United States government, and the only court specifically mentioned in the Constitution and ensures that laws follow the guidelines of the Constitution |
| Judicial Review | The power of the courts to determine the constitutionality of the actions of the legislative and executive branches of government |
| Executive Branch | The branch of the federal government which includes the President, Cabinet members and federal agencies and is responsible for carrying out the laws |
| Legislative Branch | the lawmaking part of the United States government. The legislative branch includes the two chambers of the Congress of the United States—the Senate and the House of Representatives—and their staffs. The legislative branch passes bills that become law if they are signed by the president of the United States |
| Judicial Branch | the portion of the United States national government that decides cases arising under federal laws and under the Constitution of the United States. The judicial branch interprets laws that have been passed |
| Hillary Clinton | Hillary Clinton |
| John Edwards | John Edwards |
| Barak Obama | Barak Obama |
| Rudy Guiliani | Rudy Guiliani |
| Mike Huckabee | Mike Huckabee |
| John McCain | John McCain |
| Mitt Romney | Mitt Romney |
| Immigration | Immigration |
| Health Care | Health Care |
| War in Iraq | War in Iraq |
