| Term | Definition |
|---|
| apportioned | The allocation of represenative seats; also to divide according to a plan. |
| bills of attainder | An act of the legislature that inflicts punishment on an individual or group without a judicial trial. |
| enumerated powers | Those rights and responcibilities of U.S. citizens specifically provided for and listed in the Constitution. |
| equal representation | Each state recieves the same amount of represenatives. |
| fugitive slave clause | Clause requires that slaves that escaped to another state be returned back to the owner in the state from which they escaped. |
| The Great Compromise | Adopted at the Philadelphia Convention, this plan provided for equal representation in the Senate and Proportional Represenatation in the House of Represenatives. |
| impeachment | Charging a public official with a crime in office for which the can be removed from power. |
| necessary and proper clause | This gives congress the power to make all "necessary and proper" to carry out the powers expressly delegated to it by the constitution. |
| proportional representation | The electoral system in which the number of represenatives of a state is based on the number of people who live in that state. |
| separated powers | The division of powers among different branches of government. In the Untied States government among a legislative, executive, and judicial branch. |
| supremacy clause | Laws and treaties passed by Congress are the supreme law of the land. |
| treason | Giving aid and comfort to the enemy during war time. |
| writ of habeas corpus | A writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, esp. for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment. |
| ex post facto laws | A law enacted or decreed after an act has been committed that may be illegal as a result of the new law but was not illegal at the time it was committed. |
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