Civics Unit 3 Vocabulary Quiz

A system of overlapping powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to permit each branch to check the actions of the other branches.

• Limited Government

• Division of Poweres

• Checks and Balances

• Popular Soverenignty

Assigning certain powers to the national government and reserving other to be handled at the state level.

• Checks & Balances

• Division of Powers

• Popular Sovereignty

• Judicial Review

A system of government in which a written constitution divides (distributes) the powers of government on a territorial bassis, between central government and several regional government (usually called states or provinces).

• Federalism

• Checks & Balances

• Popular Sovereignty

• Speration of Powers

The power to interept laws, to determine their meaning, and to settle disputes within the soceity.

• Checks & Balances

• Separation of Powers

• Judicial Review

• Limited Governemnt

The basic prinicipal of American government which states that government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual states have rights that the government cannot take away.

• Judicial Review

• Limited Government

• National Government

• State Government

Any political organization that is put into place to maintain a nation.

• State Government

• Federalism

• National Government

• Division of Powers

The basic priniciple of the American system of government which asserts that the people are the source any and all governmental power, and government can exist only iwth the consent of the governed.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Power

• Division of Power

• State Government

Basic prinicple of American system of government that the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial powers are divided among three independent and co-equal branches of government.

• Checks & Balances

• Separation of Powers

• State Government

• Limited Government

Any political organization that is put into place to maiintain a state.

• State Government

• Limited Government

• Division of Powers

• Popular Soverignty

The officials in the executive branch.

• Cabinet

• Judicial Branch

• Administration

• Supreme Court