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Politics of the United States
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- Can declare executive acts unconstitutional, can declare laws that congress passes unconstitutional
- Carry out laws, commander in chief to the military, foreign policy leader to talk with other countries
- appoints federal judges, can grant pardons to convicted criminals for federal crimes, can veto laws passed by Congress, can suggest laws and send messages to congress
- can refuse to confirm judicial and presidential appointments
- Interprets the meaning of laws, sets punishments for people who break the laws, the highest law in the land
- Contains the president, Vice President, and 15 executive departments
- A mistake made by a judge in legal procedures or ruling during trial that may allow the case to be appealed
- An additional court opinion in which a judge agrees with the decision reached by the court but not necessarily with the reasoning behind it
- In a trial or appeal the written opinion of a minority of judges who disagree with the decision of the majority
- Court decisions on legal questions that guide future cases with simiar questions
- A court in which appeals from trial court decisions are heard
- court decisions on legal questions that guide future cases with similiar questions
- To take a case to a higher court for a rehearing
- the process by which courts decide whether the law passed by congress or state legislature are constitutional or unconstitutional
- the division of power among the branches of government
- the power of each branch of government to limit the other branches power so as to prevent an abuse
- a basic principle of our constitutional system it limits government to powers provided to it by the people
- After a government official is impeached, what happens next?
- Which branch decides if a law is unconstitutional?
- It created a bicameral Congress with proportional representation in the House of Representatives and equal representation in the Senate