Chap 3 Consitution Review Flashcards
No person can be charged for a crime if becomes illegal after committed
Ex post facto
Electors vote for a certain candidate
Electoral college
Specific powers granted to the congress
Delegated powers
Law interpreting branch
Judicial branch
Law executing, law enforcing, law administrating branch
Executive branch
Powers held by both the state & federal gov’t
Concurrent powers
First 10 amendments
Bill of rights
Congress can pass all laws that are necessary and proper
Elastic cause
Written untruth
Libel
Can’t hold a person in jail w/o charges
Writ of habeas corpus
Tax that had been used to keep blacks from voting
Poll tax
Strong central gov’t w/ the powers divided between the federal gov’t & the states
Federalism
Spoken untruth
Slander
President of the senate
Vice President
Only crime defined in the Const.
Treason
Lawmaking branch
Legislative branch
Money or property used to secure release from jail b4 trial
Bail
President refuses to agree w a bill passed by congress
Veto