A | B |
domestic | related to what happens inside a country or nation |
tranquility | a state of peacefulness |
welfare | health, happiness, and well-being |
posterity | future generations |
concurrent powers | powers share by the federal and state governments |
reserved powers | powers set aside for the states and the people by the Tenth Amendment |
enumerated powers | powers granted directly to the national government by the Constitution |
Speaker of the House | presiding officer of the House of Representatives |
ratify | to adopt or make official |
veto | to reject or kill proposed legislation |
cabinet | the president's appointed advisers who head major Executive Branch departments |
vice president | first in line for the presidency; serves as president of the U.S. Senate |
impeach | to charge a public officeholder with misconduct or a crime |
confirm | to approve a presidential appointment (e.g. Supreme Court nomination) |
Chief Justice | the presiding officer of the U.S. Supreme Court |
appellate jurisdiction | a court's a authority to hear a case from a lower court |
original jurisdiction | the authority to hear court cases for the first time |
writ of certiorari | an order a higher court issues to a lower court to obtain the records of the lower court in a particular case |
judicial review | the power of the Supreme Court to rule on a law's constitutionality |