US Constitution Vocabulary

Accusing the president of breaking the law. 

• Amendment
• Ratify
• Impeachment
• Judicial Review

Being peaceful or quiet. 

• Preamble 
• Justification
• Tranquility
• Sanction

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

The state of being happy, healthy, and successful. 

• Tranquility
• Peaceful
• Happiness
• Welfare

to approve

• repeal

• ratify

• veto

• suffrage

Set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of government

• Constitution

• Suffrage

• Compromise

• Preamble

to reject

• veto
• bill
• Cabinet
• census

What is the name for a change or addition to the Constitution?

• Federalism
• Amendment
• Ratification
• Veto

A rule or law

• Commission

• Maelstrom

• Polity

• Ordinance

A group that works together for a common purpose

• Administration

• Confederation

• Salutation

• Delegation

When the power is shared between the national and states governments

• Communism

• Federalism

• Catholicism

• Fascism