U.S. Constitution Vocabulary

Vocabulary

• Domestic: Family relations or running a home.
• Tranquility: calm
• Herein: In this document or book
• Requisite: Made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations.
• Apportioned: to divide
• Subsequent: Following
• Enumeration: count
• Vacancies: An unoccupied position
• Impeachment: When an official does something unlawful which may require the removal of the official.
• Superseded: Supplant 
• Chuse: choose
• Pro Tempore: Temporarily
• Preside: Be in position of authority in a meeting or gathering
• Indictment: A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
• Adjourn: To postpone or defer to a later time
• Continuance: The state of remaining in existence or operation
• Concur: agree
• Impost: a tax or similar compulsory payment
• Excises: charge tax
• Post Roads: A road for postal mail
• Constitute: Be part of a whole
• Piracies: Robbing ships at sea
• License Marque: A license to capture enemy ships
• Reprisal: counterattack
• Suppress: put an end to
• Insurrections: Resistance in civil authority or an established government
• Repel: force an attack back or away
• Disciplining: Training someone to obey rules
• Cession: the formal giving up rights, property, or territory, especially by state
• Vested: secured in the possession of or assigned to person
• Ex post facto: with retroactive effect or force
• Obliged: Make someone legally or morally bound to an action or course of action
• Emolument: payment
• Emit: put into circulation
• 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
• Attained: Accomplish
• Resignation: Leaving
• Diminished: made smaller or less
• Solemnly: agree
• Affirm: state as a fact
• Pardons: forgiving
• Expedient: convenient
• Convene: call
• Ambassador: Representative
• Conviction: Declaration of guilt
• Bribery: graft
• Misdemeanors:  A minor wrongdoing
• Ordain: Make someone a priest or minister, confer holy orders on.
• Maritime: Connected with the sea
• Jurisdiction: The official power to make legal decisions and judgements
• Controversies: disagreement
• Adhering: bond
• Testimony: Evidence
• Attainder: the forfeiture of land and civil rights suffered as a consequences of a sentence of death for treason or felony
• Judicial: legal
• Immunities: protection or exemption from something, especially an obligation or penalty
• Labour: Hard work
• Deem: consider
• Suffrage: The right to vote in political elections
• Notwithstanding: In spite of
• Unanimous:Two or more people in an agreement
• Hereunto: To this document.
• Deputy: A person whose immediate superior is a senior figure within an organization and who is empowered to act as a substitute for this superior.
• Abridge: Rights or privileges
• Redress: Remedy or set right
• Grievances: Injustice
• Infringed: Actively break the law of the law, agreement, etc.
• Infamous: Known for some bad deed
• Compelled: Force someone to do something
• Compensation: Something, typically money, awarded to someone as a recompense for loss, injury, or suffering.
• Prosecution: The institution and conducting of legal proceedings against someone in respect of a criminal charge.
• Impartial: treating all rivals or disputants equally
• Wherein: In which
• Ascertained:Find something out for certain make sure of
• Accusation: A charge or claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong
• Compulsory: Obligatory
• Inflicted: Causing something to be suffered by someone or something
• Disparage: Regard or represent as being little worth
• Construed: Interpret in a particular way
• Ballot: A process of voting, in writing and typically in secret
• Devolve:Transfer power to a lower level
• Servitude: Slavery
• Duly: In accordance with what is required or appropriate; following proprer procedure or arrangement
• Bear: support
• Oath: pledge
• Validity: soundness or cogency
• Incurred: Become subject as a result of one's behavior or actions
• Pensions:a regular payment made during a person's retirement from an investment fund to which that person or their employer has contributed during their working life
• Emancipation: The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation
• Provisions:The action of providing or supplying something for use
• Census: An official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals

Sources: Google Definition

http://www.dictionary.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_tempore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_road

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumeration