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Independence Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers |
| Republic | a government in which the power belongs to a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by the leaders and representatives elected by those citizens to govern according to law |
| Ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction |
| Depreciate | to lower the price or estimated value of |
| Depression | An economic downtrend in the US |
| Manumission | formal emancipation from slavery |
| Proportional | corresponding in size, degree, or intensity |
| Compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| Federalism | he distribution of power in an organization (such as a government) between a central authority and the constituent |
| Legislative Branch | The legislative branch is the branch of government responsible for making laws |
| Executive Branch | The executive branch is one of three branches of the U.S. federal government, responsible for implementing and enforcing federal laws |
| Electoral College | The group of presidential voters responsible for the voting of the US president |
| Judicial Branch | The judicial branch is one of three branches of the U.S. government that interprets laws, applies them to individual cases, and determines if laws violate the Constitution |
| Checks and Balances | Checks and balances are a system in a government where each branch has the power to limit or reject the actions of the other branches to prevent any single branch from becoming too powerful |
| Amendment | the process of altering or amending a law or document (such as a constitution) by parliamentary or constitutional procedure |