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Government
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| domestic | relating to home, family, household |
| executive | enforce laws |
| executive branches of government | President, Governor, Mayor |
| insure | to make certain that something happens |
| judicial | interprets laws |
| judicial branches of government | Supreme Court, state courts, local courts |
| justice | fairness |
| legislature | makes laws |
| legislative branches of government | Congress (House of Representatives and Senators) |
| preamble | introduction |
| posterity | future generations (your children & grandchildren) |
| tranquility | peace |
| union | combination |
| anarchy | no government or organized authority |
| confederacy | an alliance of separately governed states |
| democracy | a nation in which power rests with the people and is exercised directly by them or their elected representatives |
| dictatorship | a nation in which absolute power is controlled by a person whose position is not inherited |
| empire | a group of nations or territories ruled by one leader or country |
| monarchy | a nation ruled by a supreme sovereign, such as king, queen, or emperor who has generally inherited the title |
| constitutional monarchy | system in which a king or queen is the head of state in a country ruled by a separate government |
| parliamentary government | an assembly of persons, not necessarily elected, who make up the laws of a nation or state |
| republic | a nation without a monarch and, in modern times, usually led by a president |
| vice-president | leader of the Senate |
| speaker | leader of the House of Representatives |
| 2 | number of senators per state |
| 100 | number of senators in the Senate |
| 435 | number of representatives in the House of Representatives |
| 6 | term of a United States Senator |
| 2 | term of a member of the House of Representatives |
| 4 | term of a president of the Untied States |
| life | How long do supreme court justices serve? |
| 25 | Age requirement for a member of the House of Representatives |
| 30 | Age requirement for a member of the Senate |
| 35 | Age requirement for president |
| 7 | Number of years of citizenship required to be a member of the House of Representatives |
| 9 | Number of years of citizenship required to be a member of the Senate |
| 14 | Number of years of citizenship required to be president |
| Number of justices on the United States Supreme Court | 9 |
| Head justice of the United States Supreme Court | Chief Justice |
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