Government Unit Vocab

What is the meaning of the word bicameral?

• A government in which citizens rule through elected officials

• An agreement between 2 or more sides in which each side gives up some of what it wants

• Consisting of two houses, or chambers, especially in a legislature

• A law or regulation

What is the meaning of the word republic?

• A government in which citizens rule through elected officials

• Sharing of power between federal and state governments

• A part of a document, such as the Constitution, that deals with a single subject

• A period of low economic activity and widespread unemployment

What were the Articles of Confederation?

• The freeing of some

  enslaved persons

• A system in which each branch of government has a check on the other two branches so that no one becomes too powerful

• An addition to a formal document such as the Constitution

• America’s 1st Constitution; provided for a new central government where states gave up little power.

What is the meaning of the word proportional?

• Sharing of power between federal and state governments

• To be the same as or corresponding to

• An addition to a formal document such as the Constitution

• To give official approval to

What is the meaning of the word compromise?

• An agreement between 2 or more sides in which each side gives up some of what it wants

• An addition to a formal document such as the Constitution

• To give official approval to

• A one-sided agreement where one side agrees to do what the other side wishes

What is the meaning of the word amendment?

• Sharing of power between federal and state governments

• An addition to a formal document such as the Constitution

• A part of a document, such as the Constitution, that deals with a single subject

• Those that opposed ratifying the Constitution. They did not support it.

What is the meaning of the word federalism?

• The freeing of some enslaved persons

• An agreement between 2 or more sides in which each side gives up some of what it wants

• Sharing of power between federal and state governments

• A period of low economic activity and widespread unemployment

What is the meaning of the word articles?

• A system in which each branch of government has a check on the other two branches so that no one becomes too powerful

• To give official approval to

• A part of a document, such as the Constitution, that deals with a single subject

• An addition to a formal document such as the Constitution

What is the meaning of the word Federalist?

• Supporters of the new Constitution

• Those that opposed ratifying the Constitution. They did not support it.

• The branch of government that MAKES the law.

• The branch of government that ENFORCES the law.

What is the meaning of the word Anti-Federalist?

• The branch of government that INTERPRETS the law.

• An addition to a formal document such as the Constitution

• Those that opposed ratifying the Constitution. They did not support it.

• A government in which citizens rule through elected officials