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Unit 9 Vocabulary
Government and Public Administration
Term | Definition |
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Assessor | An official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it. |
Chamber of Commerce | An association, primarily of people in business, to promote the commercial interests of an area. |
Citizenship | Relationship between an individual and a state in which an individual owes allegiance to that and in turn is entitled to its protection. |
City Planning | The activity or profession of determining the future physical arrangement and condition of a community. |
Election | Formal Process by which voters make their political choices on public issues or candidates for public office. |
Executive Branch | The branch of government charged with the execution and enforcement of laws and polices and the administration of public affairs. |
Federal Government | Pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distant from the individual governments of the separate states. |
Congress | The supreme legislative body of a nation and especially of a republic. |
Government | The organization, machinery, or agency through which political unit exercises authority and performs functions and which is usually classified according to the distribution of power within it. |
Governor | The executive head of a astute in the U.S. |
House of Representatives | The lower legislative branch in many national and star bicameral governing bodies. |
International Affairs | Affairs between nations. |
Judge | A public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in court. |
Judicial Branch | The branch of government charged with the interpret ion of laws and the administration of justice. |
Legislative Branch | The branch of government having the power to make laws. |
Legislator | A person who gives or makes laws. |
Local Government | The administration of the civic affairs of a city, town,or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large. |
Mayor | The chief executive official, usually elected,of a city,village, or town. |
National Security | A collective term for the defense and foreign relations of a county; protection of the interests of a country. |
Political | having a definite policy or system of government. |
Public Administration | Refers to the implementation of government policy and to an academic discipline that studies this implantation and that prepares civil servants for working in the public service. |