| PopularSovereignty | | citizens basic rights and freedoms. |
| Faction | | the people represented by an elected official. |
| Judicialreview | | a government in which the people rule. They have the supreme power in the government. |
| Democracy | | a person chosen to actfor or represent others, as at a convention. |
| SeparationofPowers | | is a system in which power is shared between the central government and the states. |
| RepublicanGovernment | | the system of government in which power is held by the people and exercised indirectly through elected representatives. |
| HabeasCorpus | | Charging a public official with a crime in office for which they can be removed from power. |
| ChecksandBalances | | each branch has a specific job and power so that no single branch would have all the power. |
| Dictatorship | | the number of delegates in the House of Representation depends on the population. |
| ProportionalRepresentation | | a one house legislature. |
| DueProcessofLaw | | a court order directing that prisoner be brought to court and to show cause for his or her detention. |
| LimitedGovernment | | formal approval. |
| Ratification | | a two house legislature. |
| RepresentativeGovernment | | the power of the courts to declare laws and actiongs of the government invalid if they violate the Constitution. |
| Impeachment | | the right to vote. |
| UnicameralLegislature | | protection against arbitrary deprivationof life, liberty and property. |
| Amend | | the provision in the 5th Amendment to the US Constitution that one may not be tried for the same crime twice. |
| Delegate | | The distribution and balancing of power among different branches of government sothat no one branch is able to dominate the others. |
| Suffrage | | a form of governmentin which political control is excercised by all the people, either directly of through their elected representative. |
| DoubleJeopardy | | to change. |
| Federalism | | the constitutional power of the president to refuse to sign a bill passed by congress preventing it from becoming a law. |
| CivilRights | | a group that seeks to promote its own special interests at the expense of the common good. |
| Veto | | Citizens have the power to govern and they give power to leaders they elect to represent them and their interests. |
| Constituents | | a government controlled by one person or a single group. |
| BicameralLegislature | | every individual must obey the law. |
