US constitution key words

Question 1

bipartisanship

Answer 1

close cooperation between the two major parties to achieve desired political goals

Question 2

Checks and Balances

Answer 2

A system of government that gives each branch legislative, executive and judicial, the means partially to control the power exercised by the other branches

Question 3

codification

Answer 3

process of writing down a constitution in one document

Question 4

constitution

Answer 4

the US constitution is contained in a single document that was created just after the country gained independence. Contains a set of laws that are higher laws and it is entrenched

Question 5

entrenchment

Answer 5

the application of extra, legal, safeguards to a constitutional provision to make it more difficult to amend or abolish it

Question 6

enumerated powers

Answer 6

powers delegated to the federal government under the constitution

Question 7

federalism

Answer 7

theory of government by which political power is divided between a national government and state governments, each having their own areas of substantive jurisdiction

Question 8

limited government

Answer 8

principle that the scope of federal government should be limited to that which is necessary for the common good of the people

Question 9

principle

Answer 9

a fundamental and ‘organising’ idea that runs throughout the constitution e.g. democracy and accountability

Question 10

separation of powers

Answer 10

a theory of government whereby political power is distributed among the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, each acting both independently and interdependently