Branches of Government

Bicameral legislative 

• a lawmaking body composed of 2 house
• a law making body composed of 4 house
• the legislative branch
• the judicial and executive branch

Bill

• a proposal presented to a legislative body for possible enactment as law
• an act or law that the supreme court rules impermissalbe under the Constitution
• part of a government that carries out or enforces the law

Checks and Balances

• the system set up by the US Constitution in which each branch of the federal government has the power to limit the actions of the other branches
• gives the power of making, enforcing, and interpreting laws to the legislative, executive and judicial branches. 
• lower house of the US Constitution 

Commander in Chief

• President's role as head of the US Military
• Lionel Richie
• power of the senate to approve treaties

Congress

• the legislative, or lawmaking, body of the US government, made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
• part of a government that carries out of enforces its laws 
• lower house of the US Congress in which states are represented ac cording to the size of their populations. 

Executive Branch

• Part of a government that carries out or enforces its laws 
• Write the laws 
• Second in the presidential line 

House of Representatives 

• lower house of the US COngress in which states are represented according to the size of their populations
• a lawmaking body composed of two houses
• a proposal presented to a legislative body for possible enactment as a law 

Impeachment

• The process by which the House of Representatives makes an accusation of wrongdoing against the President or other high federal officials  
• Chief executive order 
• the highest federal court and the final interpreter of the Constitution

Judicial Review 

• power of the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of acts of the legislative and exectuiove branches of the government 
• part of a government that carries out or enforces its law 
• tax

Law 

• rule recognized by a nation,state or community as binding on its members
• the lawmaking branch of the government
• chief executive's power to reject a bill passed by a legislative