Ch 2 Terms Flashcards
A faction within the Republican Party that supported equality for African-Americans and the invalidation of all Confederate state actions.
Radicals
The current Texas constitution, written after Reconstruction.
1876 constitution
Additions or deletions to the constitution; passed in a prescribed manner.
amendments
The portion of the Constitution limiting the government and empowering the individual.
Bill of Rights
Post–Civil War laws restricting the freedom of African Americans.
Black Codes
The basic document under which a state’s or nation’s government operates.
constitution
A democracy where instead of majority rule representatives are elected and constitutional law is supreme.
constitutional republic
The Republican governor of Texas during the era of Reconstruction.
E.J. Davis
A constitutional sharing of powers between the national and state governments.
federalism
A populist farmers’ alliance influential in the creation of the 1876 constitution.
Grange
The power of the courts to strike down laws that violate the state or national constitution.
judicial review
Law passed by the legislature.
legislative law
