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GC Vocab Term 1 Flashcards

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Congress

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National body of a country consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives

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Executive Branch

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Executes, or enforces the law

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Legislative Branch

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Has power to make laws

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Judicial Branch

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Interprets the law and brings justice

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President

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Elected head of a state

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Vice- President

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Person next in rank to a president that serves as president in the president’s absence.

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Census

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Official count or survey of a population

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Supreme Court

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Highest judicial court in a country or state

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House of Representatives

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Lower legislative branch (House and senate work together on bills to give to the Pres. to put into law)

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Senate

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Assembly of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a gov.

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Liberalism

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Quality or state of being liberal

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Conservatism

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Disposition to restore or preserve what is established and traditional and to LIMIT CHANGE

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Checks and Balances

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Each branch of the gov. has some measure of influence over the other branches and may choose to block procedures of the other branches

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Democracy

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System of gov. in which power is vested in the people who rule directly or through freely elected representatives

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Politics

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The science or art of political gov.

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Republican

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A person who favors a Republic

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Democrat

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A person who believes in the political or social equality of all people

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Election

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The selection of a person or persons for office by vote

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Voting Rights

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The right to vote

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Electoral College

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A body of people representing the states of the U.S. who cast votes for the election of the president and vice president

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Constitutional

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Of or relating to an established set of principles governing a state

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Veto

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The rejection of a decission

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