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The United States Senate Committee on Appropriations is a standing committee of the United States Senate. It has jurisdiction over all discretionary spending legislation in the Senate.

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the official power to make legal decisions and judgments.

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Concurrent power is a political power independently exercisable by both federal and state governments in the same field of legislation

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Reserved power is a political power that is not enumerated or prohibited by a constitution, but instead is reserved by the constitution for a specified political authority, such as a state government.

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The powers that are specifically named in the Constitution.

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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. The government makes sure that no branch gains too much power over another.

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The separation of powers, often imprecisely and metonymically used interchangeably with the trias politica principle, is a model for the governance of a state.

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The rule of law is the principle that law should govern a nation, as opposed to being governed by decisions of individual government officials.

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The doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general will.

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This is a minor change in a document and the Continental Congress made amendments to the Constitution when it didn't work out too well.

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This is the branch that carries out laws and passes them.

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This is the part of government that enforces the laws that Congress pass. The president of the United States is a part of this branch.

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This is the law making sector of the government.

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The introduction to the Declaration of Independence includes is the Preamble. This is stating the reason behind the colonists want for independence.

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These people opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution.

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Federalism is the mixed or compound mode of government, combining a general government with regional governments in a single political system

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Known for their support of a strong national government, the Federalists emphasized commercial and diplomatic harmony with Britain

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When Americans vote for a President and Vice President, they are actually voting for presidential electors, known collectively as the electoral college. It is these electors, chosen by the people, who elect the chief executive

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The population of slaves would be counted as three-fifths in total when apportioning Representatives, as well as Presidential electors and taxes.

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This was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.

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The point of the event was to determine how America was going to be governed.

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In order to ratify the Constitution nine states had to approve it.

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an organization that consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league.

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The House of Representatives and the Senate form a bicameral system.

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The constitution of the United States established the laws and government of America.