Complete the following sentences

1)One of the most important American contributions
to democratic practice has been ....

2) The USA is a federal republic with states ....

3) States possess significant responsibilities in such fields
as ....

4) In centralized or «unitary» systems, these functions ....

5) The accumulation of all powers in the same hands
may be pronounced ....

6) Political scientist R. Neustadt has described presidential
power in the USA as «not the power to command, ...».

7) Not all the checks and balances within the federal
government ....

8) The doctrine of judicial review gives the U.S. Su­
preme Court ....

9) The separation of powers in American system is often ....

10) But separation of powers provides ....

Fill in the blanks with the words from the text.

1)American states cannot be ... or ... by the federal
government.

2) In the second sense, checks and balances ... to the
separation of powers.

3) Legislative authority ... to the Congress.

4) Laws passed by the congress can be ... by the president.

5) The Congress must assemble a two-thirds majority in
both the House and the Senate to ... a presidential veto.

6) The president ... ambassadors and members of the
Cabinet and ... international treaties.

7) Only the Congress has the power ... war.

8) Nominating ambassadors and negotiating international
treaties are subject to ... by the Senate.

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9) Government is best when its potential for abuse is ....

10) One of the most important American ... to demo­
cratic practice has been the development of a system of
checks and balances.

Find in the text the definitions of the following terms.

Checks and balances, federalism, separation of powers, the doctrine of judicial review.

Translate the following sentences in writing paying attention to the underlined words and constructions.

1) Itis a system founded on the deeply_held_helief that
government is best when its potential for abuse is curbed,
and when it is held as close to the people as possible.

2) As a general term, 'checks and balances' has two
meanings: federalism and separation of powers.

3) Unlike the political subdivisions in nations such as
Britain and France, which have unitary political structures,
American states cannot be abolished or changed by the federal
government.

4) «The accumulation of all powers, legislative execu­
tive and judiciary, in the same hands ... may justly be pro­
nounced in the very definition of tyranny»,

5) Separation of powers is in some ways a misleading
term, because the system devised by Madison and the other
framers of the Constitution is more one of shared rather
than separate powers.

6) The Congress, in turn, must assemble a two-thirds
majority in both the House Representatives and the Senate.
To override a presidential veto.

Verb

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Noun

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Political science

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