term 1 vocab

Question 1

Congress

Answer 1

The national legislative body of a country

Question 2

Executive Branch

Answer 2

The branch of government charged with the execution and enforcement of laws and policies and the administration of public affairs

Question 3

Legislative Branch

Answer 3

The branch of the government that writes, debates, and passes laws. Making laws can be called legislating

Question 4

Judicial Branch

Answer 4

The criminal and civil courts and helps interpret the United States Constitution

Question 5

President

Answer 5

The elected head of a republican state

Question 6

Vice-President

Answer 6

An official or executive ranking below and deputizing for a president

Question 7

census

Answer 7

An official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation

Question 8

Supreme Court

Answer 8

The highest court of the U.S.

Question 9

House of Representatives

Answer 9

The lower legislative branch in many national and state bicameral governing bodies, as in the United States, Mexico, and Japan

Question 10

Senate

Answer 10

An assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation

Question 11

liberalism

Answer 11

Political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality

Question 12

Conservatism

Answer 12

Conservatism is a preference for the historically inherited rather than the abstract and ideal

Question 13

checks and balances

Answer 13

To keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch.

Question 14

democracy

Answer 14

Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system

Question 15

Politics

Answer 15

The activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power

Question 16

Republican

Answer 16

A person advocating or supporting republican government

Question 17

Democrat

Answer 17

An advocate or supporter of democracy

Question 18

Election

Answer 18

A formal and organized process of electing or being elected, especially of members of a political body

Question 19

voting rights

Answer 19

The right of a stockholder to vote on matters of corporate policy and who will make up the board of directors.

Question 20

Electoral College

Answer 20

A body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president

Question 21

Constitution

Answer 21

A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed

Question 22

constitutional

Answer 22

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

Question 23

veto

Answer 23

A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body