Set: Governmental Checks and Balances

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TermDefinition
Executive-Legislativeveto laws
Executive-LegislativeNegotiates foreign treaties
Executive-Legislativecan propose and campaign for laws
Executive-Legislativecan call special sessions of congress
Executive-Legislativeappoints people to national departments and agencies
Executive-Legislativecommander in chief, commands troops
Legislative-Executiveoverride veto with 2/3 vote in both houses
Legislative-Executivemust approve executive's appontments
Legislative-Executivemust ratify treaties
Legislative-ExecutiveDecalars war
Legislative-Executiveappropriates money
Legislative-Executiveimpeach president
Judicial-Executivedeclare executive actions unconstitutional
Judicial-Legislativedeclare laws unconstitutional
Executive-Judicialappoints federal judges
Executive-Judicialgrant pardons to people convicted of ferderal crime
Legislative-Judicialimpeach judges
Legislative-Judicialcan propose constitutional amendment to overrule judge's declaeration of a law being unconstitutional
Legislative-Judicialmust approve appointments of judges

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Terms 19
Creator stay50
Created October 10, 2009
Groups None
Subject Constitutional Law
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Describes how the three branches of the government keep each other in cheack

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