Vocabulary - State and Local Government

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• Something that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses

• A group of people who have the power to make laws

• A person who makes laws, or a member of a legislative body

• An area of a country, state, or county, marked off for government purposes

Bicameral

Legislature

Legislator

District

• Bicameral

• Legislature

• Legislator

• District

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• Courts where trials are held in in Massachusetts and other states

• A process that allows citizens to draft laws they would like to see the legislature create

• A way to let citizens vote on a law already passed by the state legislature

• The basic support structures that serve a geographic area, such as transportation, communication, and power systems.

Superior Courts

Initiative

Referendum

Infrastructure

• Superior Courts

• Initiative

• Referendum

• Infrastructure

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• Money given by a government that is designated for a certain purpose such as improving an airport or providing health care to low-income households.

• To control or supervise (something, especially business activity) through the use of rules and regulations.

• Held completely, permanently, and inalienably

• A political unit that has the authority to govern itself

Grants

Regulating

Vested

State

• Grants

• Regulating

• Vested

• State

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• Assigned or given

• Set aside for

• Occurring or happening at the same time

• A set of instructions that acts like a law but is issued by the governor (or president) alone — without the legislature

• A city or town that has its own local government and is recognized by the state

Delegated

Reserved

Concurrent

Executive Order

Municipality

• Delegated

• Reserved

• Concurrent

• Executive Order

• Municipality

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• The government of a city or town

• An organization that supplies a community with services like electricity, gas, water, or sewerage

• The total amount of money brought in by an organization's operations

• A unit of government below the state level that generally contains several municipalities within its boundaries

Municipal Government

Utilities

Revenue

County

• Municipal Government

• Utilities

• Revenue

• County