Term 1 vocabulary

Question 1

Congress

Answer 1

the national legislative body of a country.

Question 2

Executive Branch

Answer 2

The branch of federal and state government that is broadly responsible for implementing, supporting, and enforcing the laws made by the legislative branch and interpreted by the judicial branch.

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

includes 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 count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals.

Question 8

Supreme Court

Answer 8

the highest judicial court in a country or state.

Question 9

House of Representatives

Answer 9

The House of Representatives is the lower house of the United States Congress. The House and the Senate work together on bills to give to the President to put into law.

Question 10

Senate

Answer 10

he smaller upper assembly in the US Congress, most US states, France, and other countries.

Question 11

liberalism

Answer 11

a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality.

Question 12

conservatism

Answer 12

the principles and practices of political conservatives.

Question 13

checks and balances

Answer 13

limits imposed on all branches of a government by vesting in each branch the right to amend or void those acts of another that fall within its purview.

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

methods or maneuvers

Question 16

Republican

Answer 16

a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.

Question 17

Democrat

Answer 17

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

Question 18

election

Answer 18

a public vote upon a proposition submitted.

Question 19

Electoral College

Answer 19

is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.

Question 20

Constitution

Answer 20

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

Question 21

constitutional

Answer 21

the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed.

Question 22

Veto

Answer 22

o reject (a proposed bill or enactment) by exercising to veto.