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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.