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| Basic principle that government and those who govern must obey the law, and the rule of the law. |
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| Contrary to continual provision and so illegal, null and void, of no force and effect. |
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| Basic principle of American system of government that the executive, legislative, and judicial powers are divided among three independent and coequal branches of government. |
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| A system of government in which a written constitution divides power between central, or national, government and several regional governments. |
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| The power of a court to hear a case. |
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| System of overlapping the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to permit each branch to check the actions of the others. |
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| A joining of several groups for a common purpose. |
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| The President’s power to appoint |
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| Change or addition that becomes of the written language of the Constitution itself through one of four methods set forth in the Constitution. |
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| those powers, expressed, implied, or inherent, granted to the National Government by the Constitution. |
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| those delegated powers of the National Government that are spelled out, expressly, in the Constitution; also called the “enumerated powers” |
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| those delegated powers of the National Government that are suggested by the expressed powers set out in the Constitution; those “necessary and proper” to carry out expressed powers. |
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| some powers are denied to the States by the existence of the federal system. An example of this would be no State can tax any of the agencies or functions of the National Government. |
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| Those powers that both the National Government and States possess and exercise. |
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| Those powers that the Constitution does not grant to the National Government and does not, at the same time, deny to the States. |
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