acts, administration, adoption, advantage, advice, advise, advocate, affiliation, agenda, agreement, allocate, article, assist, attitude, authority, authorization
balance, ballot, basic, belief, bicameral, bipartisan, branch, budget, bureaucracy
cabinet, campaign, candidate, capital, caucus, check, citizenship, clause, cloture, committee, concurrent, conduct, consent, constituent, constitution, contribute, contribution, control, cooperation, council, court, courtesy, crossover, curtail
debate, debt, decision, deficit, delay, delegate, democracy, department, detente, direct, doctrine, domestic
efficacy, election, enforce, engage, enterprise, equality, evidence, exclusive, exemplify, expire, express
faction, federal, filibuster
gerrymandering, goal, government, grant, guilt
honor
ideasl, identification, ideology, illegal, impact, impeach, implied, impound, inadmissible, inalienable, incumbent, inefficiency, influence, inherent, initiative, interpretation, interstate
job, joint, judgment, judicial
lame duck, law, leader, legal, legislator, legislature, lobby, lobbyist, local
machine, major, majority, management, maritime, meeting, member, minority
nation, national, nominate
official, oligarchy, outcome, override
partisan, petition, philosophy, policy, political party, poll, popular, population, power, presidential, prevent, primary, procedure, process, proper, protection, public, public domain, punishment, purpose
quality
range, recall, referendum, representative, requirement, reserve, responsibility, restraint, review, reward, rights, rule
safe seat, search, security, sedition, seizure, select, separation, share, signature, special interest, spending, split, state, status, strict, successful, suffrage, support, supreme, system
tax, technique, tension, term, threaten, ticket, two-thirds, tyranny
unconstitutional, unicameral, unity, unpopular
various, veto, violation, vital, vote
ward, wealth, wide, worthy
zone
AMENDMENT
Bill of Rights, BIPARTISANSHIP
CONCEIVE, Congress
Electoral College, ENUMERATE, ESTABLISH, Executive Branch
FEDERALISM, First Amendment, Founding Fathers
LEGISLATIVE
ORDAIN
P: parties, PERFECT, PERPETUATE, POSTERITY
RATIFICATION, RECITATION, REPUBLIC
SECURE, SIMULTANEOUS, Speaker of the House
TRANQUILITY
UNIQUENESS
Whip
Constitution Day Lesson plans and discussion questions:
1. In what document, adopted in 1791, can you find ten amendments to the Constitution?
2. Explain the term, New Federalism.
3. What branches of the US government enforce laws?
4. What does the term filibuster mean?
5. How many members are there in the House of Representatives? In the Senate? How many from each state?
6. Explain the term pocket veto.