03 Unit 3 Wk #1 Vocabulary: Confederation to Constitution

Consisting of two houses, or chambers, especially in the legislature

• Unicameral

• Bicameral

• Ordain

• Tranquility

To be the same as or corresponding to

• Equality

• Bias

• Proportional

• Override

A formal plan of government

• Constitution

• Compromise

• Republic

• Declaration of Independence

An agreement between two or more sides in which each side gives up some of what it wants

• Ordinance

• Appropriates

• Welfare

• Compromise

A law or regulation

• Veto

• Ordinance

• Posterity

• Levy

To overturn or defeat, a bill proposed in Congress

• Veto

• Compromise

• Override

• Levy

To reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law

• Levy

• Veto

• Compromise

• Override

To set something aside for a particular purpose, especially funds (money)

• Revenue

• Appropriates

• Savings

• National Bank

To grant full citizenship to a foreigner

• Urbanization

• Naturalization

• Citizenship

• Domestic

A proposed law under consideration by a legislature

• Bill

• Ordinance

• Veto

• Override