Constitution Vocab.

Word Definition
Affirmation The Action and Process of asserting one self strongly
Allocation distributing something
Apportioned divide and allocate
Bills of Attainder an item of legislation (prohibited by the US
Constitution) that inflicts attainder without judicial
process.
Capitation the act of computing present value of the future
periodical payments
Census an official count or survey of a population
Cession the formal giving up of rights
Commerce the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large
scale
Concurrence agreement of results or opinions
Confederation an organization that consists of a number of parties or
groups united in an alliance or league.
Congress the national legislative body of a government
Emoluments profit from employment
Enumeration the act of listing off objects one by one
Exercises a putting into action
House of Representatives the lower house of the United States Congress, The
number determined for a state is based off of population
Impeachment the act of impeaching a public official before an
appropriate tribunal
Imposts a tax
Indictment a formal charge/accusation of a serious crime
Inhabitant an area in which creature(s) occupy
Insurrections a violent uprising against authority
Legislature the body of a country or state
Militia a military force that engages in rebel or terrorist
activities, typically in opposition to a regular army
Naturalization The legal act of a non-citizen becoming a citizen
Constitution Vocab.

President Pro Tempore a high-ranking senator of the majority party who
presides over the US Senate in the absence of the vice
president
Quorum the minimum number of members of an assembly or
society that must be present at any of its meetings to
make the proceedings of that meeting valid
Reprisal an act of retaliation
Requisite made necessary by particular circumstances
Revenue income
Senate the smaller upper assembly of the US Congress, two per
state
Treason the crime of betraying one's country
Tribunal a court of justice
Writ a form of written command in the name of a court or
other legal authority to act
Up or Down Vote refers to a direct vote in the U.S. House of
Representatives or the U.S. Senate on an amendment or
bill
Veto a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal
made by a law-making body
Override use ones authority to reject or cancel
Recall bring (a fact, event, or situation) back into one's mind,
especially so as to recount it to others
Equal Protection Clause provides that no state shall deny to any person within its
jurisdiction
Presidential Succession The line of people who will take over if the president
can not do his job through various situations
Pro Forma Session A pro forma session is a short period of time when
either the House or Senate is technically in legislative
session but when no votes are held and no formal
business is typically conducted
Regular Veto The power of a president or governor to reject a bill
proposed by a legislature
Pocket Veto an indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a
governor
Commerce Clause gives Congress the power to regulatecommerce with
foreign nations, and among the several states, and with
the Indian tribes
Power of the Purse the ability of one group to manipulate and control the
actions of another group by withholding funding, or
Constitution Vocab.

putting stipulations on the use of funds
Elastic Clause granting Congress the power to pass all laws necessary
and proper for carrying out the enumerated list of
powers
Habeas Corpus a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought
before a judge or into court, especially to secure the
person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for
their detention.
Ex Post Facto with retroactive effect or force
Gerrymandering manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency)
so as to favor one party or class
Great Compromise that every state will have 2 members of the senate for
representatives
Compromise
one slave = 3/5 of a person --- this was that
each slave equalled 3/5 person for population
determining House of Representatives