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Social Studies
Civics and Government
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bicameral legislature | law-making body with two houses |
| bill | proposed law |
| Bill of Rights | first ten amendments that protect individual and state rights |
| cabinet | group of presidential advisers |
| campaign | efforts by candidates to persuade voters to choose them |
| charter | written documents setting up a government |
| checks and balances | way if balancing power among branches wo no one becomes too powerful |
| citizen | a legal member of a place |
| conclusion | supported idea that goes one step beyond what is next |
| Congress | national legislature |
| council-manager system | system of local government in which an elected council hires a professional city manager to run the city's regular business |
| court-packing plan | unpopular effort by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to change the Supreme Court |
| Democratic Party | major political party with roots in the 1790's |
| Electoral College | group of special voters who choose the president |
| executive branch | branch of government that enforces law |
| executive privilege | right of the president to withhold certain secret information |
| federalism | system of government in which power is spread between national and state or reginal units |
| functional document | any kind of form people complete as part of a task |
| general election | election in which voters choose candidates for office |
| government | system of managing a country, region, or community |
| governor | head of the state's executive branch |
| House of Representatives | one house of U.S. Congress with many members |
| immigrant | someone who moves to a country in order to live there |
| inference | something that is suggested by the facts in the text but not directly stated |
| judicial activism | using the federal courts to influence laws or social issues |
| judicial branch | branch of government that interprets laws |
| judicial review | the Supreme Court's ability to find laws or actions unconstitutional |
| Judiciary Act of 1789 | federal law establishing the Supreme Court and lower court system |
| legislative branch | branch of government that makes laws |
| lobbyist | Someone who tries to persuade government leaders to support the goals of a special interest group |
| mayor-council system | system of local government with an elected mayor who acts as the head of the city's executive branch |
| municipal government | local government such as county or city government |
| naturalization | process of becoming a citizen of a new place |
| platform | list of a political party's ideals and goals |
| political action committee (PAC) | an organization that raises money for a particular candidate or cause |
| precedent | way of doing things |
| primary election | election in which voters cast ballots for candidates of one political party |
| Republican Party | major political party founded shortly before the civil war |
| Senate | one house of U.S. Congress with two members from each state |
| speaker of the house | head of the majority party in the House of Representatives |
| special interest group | a group of citizens who work together for a common goal |
| super (PAC) | an organization that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money toward a candidate or cause |
| voter registration form | document people use to add their names to the voter rolls in their communities |
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