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Government Key Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Act | Legislation that has been passed by both houses of Congress and approved by the president, or passed over his veto, thus becoming law. Also used technically for bill that has been passed by one house of congress. |
| Alien | A person residing under a government or in a country other than that of one's birth without having or obtaining the status of citizenship there. |
| Amendment | |
| Anti-Federalist | |
| Autonomy | |
| Bill | |
| Bicameral | |
| Calendar | |
| Checks & Balances | |
| Citizen | |
| Confirmation | |
| Concurrent Powers | |
| Decennial | Ocurring every 10 years. |
| Democratic | Characterized by the principle of political or social equality for all. |
| Dual Federalism | |
| Elastic Cause | |
| Enrolled Bill | |
| Federal | A union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of separate states. |
| Federalism | A union of states which sovereignty is divided between a central authority and members state authorities. |
| Federalist | A group of people who supported the adoption of the constitution. Leading Federalists included Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay |
| Garry-Mandering | |
| Hearing | |
| Immigrant | A person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence. |
| Impeachment | A formal accusation by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. |
| Initiative | A procedure by which a specified number of voters may propose a statue, constitutional amendment, or ordinance, and compel a popular vote on it's adoption. |
| Judicial Review | The power of a court to judge the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official. |
| Legislative Day | |
| Line-Item Veto | The power of the executive to disapprove of particular items of a bill without having to disapprove of the entire bill. |
| National | A citizen or subject of a particular nation who is entitled to it's protection. |
| Naturalization | The official act by which a person is made a national of a country other than his native one. |
| Pocket Veto | |
| Primary Election | An election held to decide which candidates will be on the November general election ballot. |
| Public Law | |
| Ratification | |
| Reapportionment | |
| Redistricting | The process in which the states of redrawing legislative district boundaries to reflect population changes following the decennial census. |
| Referndum | The submission of a law, proposed or already in effect, to a direct vote of the people. |
| Report | |
| Republic | |
| Sovereign | Above or superior to all others; cheif; greatest power; supreme dominion or power. |
| Tabling Motion | A motion to stop action on a pending proposal and lay it aside indefinitely. When the senate or House agrees to a tabling motion, the measure which has been tabled is effectively defeated |
| Veto |
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