Term 1 Flashcards
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Congress
the national legislative body of the U.S., consisting of the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives, or lower house, as a continuous institution.
Executive branch
he 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.
Legislative branch
the branch of the government that writes, debates, and passes laws.
Judicial branch
includes criminal and civil courts and helps interpret the United States Constitution
President
the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
Vice-president
n officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president’s absence.
Census
an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
Supreme court
The highest federal court in the US, consisting of nine justices and taking judicial precedence over all other courts in the nation.
House of representatives
The lower house of the United States Congress. W
Senate
an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
Liberalism
political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary systems of government, nonviolent modification of political, social, or economic institutions to assure unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor, and governmental guarantees of individual rights and civil liberties.
Conservatism
the disposition to preserve or restore what is established and traditional and to limit change.
Checks and balances
counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups.
Democracy
government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
Politics
the science or art of political government.
Republican
a person who favors a republican form of government.
Democrat
an advocate of democracy.
Election
he selection of a person or persons for office by vote.
Voting rights
Having the right to vote
Electoral college
Is made up of 538 electors who cast votes to decide the President and Vice-President of the United States.
Constitution
the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed.
Constitutional
of or relating to the constitution of a state, organization, etc.
Veto
To reject (a proposed bill or enactment) by exercising a veto.
