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a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body.

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an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.

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The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprises the legislature of the United States. The composition and powers of the Senate are established by Article One of the United States Constitution

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the action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid.

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An earlier event or action

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is a belief that the political power of a nation or state comes from the consent of the people popular sovereignty is related to the idea of social contact which Jean-Jacques Rousseau promoted it

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is one in which voters as well as a carefully crafted constitution play a part in checking or limiting the governments power the idea of limiting the governments power was first set forth in the Maya Carta

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is the legislative branch there are two houses the senate and the house of representatives

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nine of the states needed to ratify it or approve it the constitution after it was written in 1787

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to count or make a list enumerated powers of government are powers are enumerated in Articles 1 Section 8 of the constitution

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person who represents or acts for others at s meeting such as a convention or conference leaders who attends constitutional convention are known as delegates to that convention

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in 1787 55 delegates from 12 of the 13 states convened or met in Philadelphia they hoped to find ways to balance states' rights with federal oversight

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written document that describes the structure and powers of a national or state government the U.S constitution is the oldest national written constitution in the use today and is a model for the constitution of many other countries

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is the legislative branch this branch makes laws congress is bicameral which means its made out of two houses the house of representatives and the senate has 100 members with 2 senators from each state house of representation has 435 members

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organization or alliance of several groups immediately fallowing the American Revolutionary War the original 13 states are one example of a political confederation

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describes a government which each separate branch can check the power of the branches

Each of the three branches of government can limit the powers of the others.

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in order for the united states to ratify the constitution had to have a bill of rights they adopted in 1791

James Madison created the bill of rights

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was a first written plan for the united states it was adopted by congress after the colonists experienced with Great Britain the leaders did not want a strong central  government that had too much power over states so they created the confederation which is a loose union of states or nations that does not have a strong central government

The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of confederation

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federalist believed that the country needed the strong federal government created by the new constitution. people who didn't support the constitution were called Anti-federalists they believed that the federal government was too strong

George mason,Patrick Henry,Samuel Adams were all Anti-federalists.

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is a formal change made in a document or law for editing deleting and adding to the document amendment can be made for various legal insterments

James Madison made the second amendment so that people can carry weapons