GC Vocab Term 1 Flashcards
Congress
National body of a country consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives
Executive Branch
Executes, or enforces the law
Legislative Branch
Has power to make laws
Judicial Branch
Interprets the law and brings justice
President
Elected head of a state
Vice- President
Person next in rank to a president that serves as president in the president’s absence.
Census
Official count or survey of a population
Supreme Court
Highest judicial court in a country or state
House of Representatives
Lower legislative branch (House and senate work together on bills to give to the Pres. to put into law)
Senate
Assembly of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a gov.
Liberalism
Quality or state of being liberal
Conservatism
Disposition to restore or preserve what is established and traditional and to LIMIT CHANGE
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the gov. has some measure of influence over the other branches and may choose to block procedures of the other branches
Democracy
System of gov. in which power is vested in the people who rule directly or through freely elected representatives
Politics
The science or art of political gov.
Republican
A person who favors a Republic
Democrat
A person who believes in the political or social equality of all people
Election
The selection of a person or persons for office by vote
Voting Rights
The right to vote
Electoral College
A body of people representing the states of the U.S. who cast votes for the election of the president and vice president
Constitutional
Of or relating to an established set of principles governing a state
Veto
The rejection of a decission
