Lesson 19: How Did Congress Organize the New Government?
cabinet The advisors to the president who are the heads of the departments of the executive branch.
Judiciary Act of 1789 A law passed by the first Congress to establish the federal court system. The act determined the organization and jurisdiction of the courts.
Ninth Amendment This amendment states, in effect, that the Bill of Rights is only a partial listing of the rights of the people.
Tenth Amendment This Amendment holds that the ???powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or the people.??? The Tenth Amendment embodies the principle of federalism, which reserves for the states the residue of powers not granted to the federal government or withheld from the states, and the principle of popular sovereignty, which reserves other rights to the people.
