TAKS Vocab and Context Review- Government Terms Flashcards

55666155	Representative government	Government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf	0
55666156	Amendments	An official change to a law or document of gov't	1
55666157	Ratify	To officially approve	2
55666158	Veto	Power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress	3
55666159	Unconstitutional	Actions or laws contrary to the Constitution as determined by the courts	4
55666160	Nullify	To declare something to be w/o power or effect; to disregard the power of something as in the Nullification Crisis	5
55666161	Citizens	Member of a country	6
55666162	Unalienable Rights	Rights that can't be taken away or surrendered	7
55666163	Democracy (democratic society)	Form of government in which citizens rule, either directly or by choosing leaders to rule, usually through voting	8
55666164	Limited Government	Type of gov't where, through law, some control is placed on leadership's power such as a democracy	9
55666165	Unlimited Government	Government in which leaders rule w/o any restrictions such as a dictatorship or other totalitarian government	10
55666166	Suffrage	The right to vote and the exercise of that right	11
55666167	Landmark Case	Key decisions by the courts that interpret the law such as Brown vs. Board of Education which led to the integration or Marbury vs. Madison which led to judicial review	12
55666168	Parliament	The law-making assembly in Great Britain (England) and other parliamentary democracies	13