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| 241038136 | Bill of Attainder | A person without a trial can be declared guilty of a crime. | |
| 241038137 | Ex post facto law | Makes an act criminal although the act was legal when it was committed. | |
| 241038138 | Bill of Rights | First ten amendments of the Constitution | |
| 241038139 | Amendment | A new provision in the Constitution that has been ratified by the states. | |
| 241038140 | Line-item Veto | An executive's ability to block a particular provision in a bill passed by the legislature. | |
| 241038141 | Devolution | The effort to transfer responsibility for many public programs and services from the federal goverment to the states. | |
| 241038142 | Block grants | Money from the national goverment that states can spend within broad guidelines determined by Washington. | |
| 241038143 | "Necessary and proper" clause | Section of the Constituion allowing Congress to pass all laws "necessary and proper" to its duties, and which has permitted congress to exercise powers not specifically given to it by the Constitution. | |
| 241038144 | Nullification | The doctrine that a state can declare null and void a federal law that, in the state's opinion, violates the Constituion. | |
| 241038145 | Dual federalism | Doctrine holding that the national goverment is supreme in its sphere, the states are supreme in theirs, and the two spheres should be kept seperate. |
