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Unit 4 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Administration | Officials in the Executive Branch. |
Ambassador | A diplomat from a country that stays in another country as a representative of their country. |
Biennial | Something taking place every two years. |
Budget | |
Bureaucracy | A system where state officials make important decisions instead of representatives that are elected. |
Cabinet | A specific amount of people chosen to protect the President. |
Checks and Balances | A system where two governmental branches could limit the power of another governmental branch. |
Commision | A group that usually has one purpose to fulfill and will accomplish just that. |
Commute | Decrease the power of a punishment. |
Diplomacy | The ability to manage with a country's problems. |
Electoral College | A Group of People who represent the states of the United States. |
Electors | People who can vote. |
Embassy | An office for a Ambassador. |
Executive Agencies | A part of an governmental department that is used for executive exclusive functions, or problems. |
Executive Departments | The branch of Federal/State government that helps let the laws interpreted and made by Judicial/Legislative branch get used. |
Federalism | System of Government |
Government | A body that controls a country and listens to people. |
Impeach | To accuse a person in office of a wrong-doing. |
Order of Succesion | A sequence for important people to pass on important titles. |
Pardon | The ability to let someone(or something) to get away from something(such as going through a whole line, or not getting eaten on Thanksgiving. |
Regulatory Commission | A Governmental Commission that sets standards for a certain area. |
Reprieve | To cancel or postpone a punishment. |
State of the Union | A yearly address made by the president to tell what will happen in the future with them as the president. |
Separation of Powers | A way to have all the three branches of government to have equal power in what they do. |
Veto | The ability to deny a Bill or Law, which the Executive Branch has the power to do to a bill that was given to him by the Legislative Branch |