A New Nation Vocabulary

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A New Nation Vocabulary
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Federal System

• A form of government which authority is divided
  between a central government and the states

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Constitution

• A plan of government

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Bill of Rights

• Amendments (changes) to the Constitution of the
  United States that lists the guaranteed
  individual rights of the people

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Checks and Balances

• A system by which no one branch of the government
  becomes more powerful than the other

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Compromise

• An agreement made by opposing claims or ideas

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Commerce

• A trading of goods within a country

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Two-Party System

• A system in which two main political parties
  compete for control of the government