Vocab Unit 3 Melissa Harrison

Question 1

Amending Formula

Answer 1

A specified process or procedure by which a constitution may be amended.

Question 2

Bill

Answer 2

An amount of money owed for goods supplied or services rendered, set out in a printed or written statement of charges.

Question 3

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Answer 3

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is one part of the Canadian Constitution. The Constitution is a set of laws containing the basic rules about how our country operates. For example, it contains the powers of the federal government and those of the provincial governments in Canada.

Question 4

Civil Liberties

Answer 4

The state of being subject only to laws established for the good of the community, especially with regard to freedom of action and speech.

Question 5

Executive Branch

Answer 5

Executive branch definition. The branch of federal and state government that is broadly responsible for implementing, supporting, and enforcing the laws made by the legislative branch and interpreted by the judicial branch.

Question 6

Federal System

Answer 6

Pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system

Question 7

Government or Public Bill

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Question 8

Intra Vires

Answer 8

Beyond one’s legal power or authority.

Question 9

Ultra Vires

Answer 9

Within one’s legal power or authority.

Question 10

Judiciary

Answer 10

The judicial authorities of a country; judges collectively.

Question 11

Legislative Branch

Answer 11

The legislative branch is the part of the United States government that creates laws. Whenever you read about congresspeople in the Senate or House debating a law, you’re reading about the legislative branch: the branch of the government that writes, debates, and passes laws. Making laws can be called legislating.

Question 12

Lobby Groups

Answer 12

‘Lobbying’ (also ‘lobby’) is a form of advocacy with the intention of influencing decisions made by the government by individuals or more usually by lobby groups; it includes all attempts to influence legislators and officials, whether by other legislators, constituents, or organized groups.

Question 13

Patriate

Answer 13

Transfer control over (a constitution) from a mother country to its former dependency

Question 14

Principle of Equalization

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Question 15

Private Member’s Bill

Answer 15

A private member’s bill in a parliamentary system of government is a bill (proposed law) introduced into a legislature by a legislator who is not acting on behalf of the executive branch.

Question 16

Residual Powers

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Question 17

Shared Cost Agreements

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Question 18

Statute of Westminster

Answer 18

The Statute of Westminster 1931 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and separate versions of it are now domestic law within some of the other Commonwealth realms, to the extent that they have not been implicitly repealed by subsequent laws.

Question 19

Unitary System

Answer 19

A unitary system of government, or unitary state, is a sovereign state governed as a single entity. The central government is supreme, and the administrative divisions exercise only powers that the central government has delegated to them.