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Civics: Government
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Civics: Government
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1. Changes

2. The power to take private property for public use

3. Accuse

4. The right to publish newspapers - magazines - and other materials without governmental restriction

5. Powers shared by federal and state governments

6. A form of government in which laws are made directly by the citizens

7. The way in which changes are added to the Constitution

8. Opponents of the Constitution who feared a strong central government

9. Powers that the Constitution neither gives to Congress nor denies to the states

10. Steps to counteract the effects of past racial discrimination and discrimination against women

11. The situation in which the government may not favor any religion or establish an official religion

12. The plan agreed to during the writing of the Constitution that created the House of Representatives - in which each state was given votes based on its population - and the Senate - in which each state was given equal votes

13. The supporters of the Constitution who supported a strong federal - or national - government

14. The division of power between the states and the federal - or national - government

15. Dividing government power among legislature - executive - and judicial branches

16. Fee for voting

17. A written agreement to make and obey laws for the welfare of the group

18. Two-house

19. Assembly

20. A group of people chosen to make the laws

21. A document giving permission to create a government

22. The right to vote

23. Means that people must be treated fairly - but it does not mean that everyone must be treated in exactly the same way

24. Being placed on trial twice for the same crime

25. A government in which representatives were elected to make laws