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Executive branch Vol
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Administration | a body of administrators, especially in government. |
| Ambassador | a diplomatic official of the highest rank, sent by one sovereign or state to another as its resident representative |
| Biennial | Legislatures' growing role in state government can be measured by the shift from biennial to annual legislative sessions. |
| Budget | an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time |
| Bureaucracy | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. |
| Cabinet | a body of advisers to the president, composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government. |
| 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. |
| Commission | an instruction, command, or duty given to a person or group of people. |
| Commute | reduce (a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death) to one less severe. |
| Diplomacy | the profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad. |
| Electoral College | (in the US) a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president. |
| Electors | a person who has the right to vote in an election. |
| Embassy | the official residence or offices of an ambassador. |
| Executive Agencies | Type of agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office. an administrative unit of government. |
| Executive Departments | 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. |
| Federalism | a system of government in which entities such as states or provinces share power with a national government. |
| Government | the governing body of a nation, state, or community. |
| Impeach | charge with treason or another crime against the state. |
| Order of Succession | President pro tempore of the Senate as next in line after the Vice President, followed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. |
| Pardon | a remission of the legal consequences of an offense or conviction |
| Regulatory Commission | United States government agency, established in 1977 to oversee the country's interstate transmission and pricing of a variety of energy resources, including electricity, natural gas and oil. |
| Reprieve | a cancellation or postponement of a punishment. |
| State of Union | An annual message delivered to Congress by the president of the United States, in which he describes the condition of the country, outlines the nation's most serious problems, and proposes his annual program of legislation. |
| Separation of powers | an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies |
| Veto | a rejection of a law by the president |
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