Government Terms

This term means to formally charge someone with a crime. According to the Fifth Amendment a grand jury must do it before you have a trial for a major crime. Hint: a president can be impeached, but this could happen to you, and then you would be in deep

• indict

• repeal

• census

What do we call a change made to a document, like when we add to the US Constitution?

• amendment

• census

• ratify

What is a term for a population count? The U.S. takes one every ten years.

• delegate

• census

• apportionment

What do we call the branch of the government that proposes bills and sometimes passes them into laws? The Congress is one of these.

• legislature

• constitution

• delegate

What do we call a proposed law? It is “just” one of these.

• George

• Bill

• Tammy

What is the term for the method used to distribute the 435 representatives in the House of Representatives among the 50 states so that every state gets a portion of the seats in Congress.

• ratify

• apportionment

• census

This term means permission. The government derives its just powers from the governed when this is given.

• consent

• delegate

• cede

This is done when we formally approve something, like turning a bill into law or adding an amendment to the Constitution.

• secede

• ratify

• repeal

What term can be used for an official representing a country abroad (in another country)? An ambassador would be an example.

• diplomat

• amendment

• sovereign

What do we call a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power, by which an institution such as a company, college, bank, or city is created and its rights and privileges are defined? Hint: The Magna Carta in 1215 was a Great one of these, and each of the colonies received one from the King.

• charter

• apportionment

• census