Vocabulary

Students,

Below you will find a list of Constitution vocabulary words and the dictionary.com definition of each word. I would like each of you to write, in your own words, a sentence using each vocabulary word. I have done the first word as an example.

__**Amendment:**__ an alteration of or addition to a motion, bill, constitution, etc.

The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution make up the Bill of Rights.

__**Constitution:**__ the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed.

__**Democracy:**__ government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

__**Electoral College:**__ a body of electors chosen by the voters in each state to elect the President and Vice President of the U.S.

__**Government:**__ the governing body of persons in a state, community, etc.; administration.

__**Legislate:**__ to exercise the function of legislation; make or enact laws.

__**Populace:**__ all the inhabitants of a place; population.

__**Republic:**__ a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.

__**Treason:**__ the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.

__**Veto:**__ the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, esp. the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature. //definitions found at [|www.dictionary.com]//