Legislative and Executive Vocabulary + Social Skills 2021

The Name given to the national legislature of the United States

• Congress
• Presidency
• House of Representatives
• Senate

The Lower House of Congress with 435 members where different states send representatives based upon the population of the state

• Congress
• Presidency
• House of Representatives
• Senate

The upper house of the United States congress where states are represented based upon equal representation (2 members from each state).

• Congress
• Senate
• House of Representatives
• General Assembly

A congressional function where officials are removed from office following being told they were wrong in the House of Representatives and a trial in the Senate for "treason, bribery, or high crimes or misdemeanors."

• Oversight

• Impeachment

• Rules and Regulations

• Executive Order

a process of inducing others into accepting a point of view by means of reasoning and argumentation.

• Persuasion
• Negotiation
• Compromise
• Consensus Building

A process of settling differences through a discussion of the issues.

• Persuasion
• Negotiation
• Compromise
• Consensus Building

A process of giving something up in order to settle differences.

• Persuasion
• Negotiation
• Compromise 
• Consensus Building

The process of working toward achieving general agreement within a group.

• Persuasion
• Negotiation
• Compromise
• Consensus Building

The procedures that federal departments and agencies make that allow for a law made by congress to be enforced. After being put into place, citizens can be punished for not following, as though they are a law.

• Resolutions

• Treaties

• Rules and Regulations

• Executive Orders

Power of the President, through the department of state, to decide which countries the United States will officially deal with and on what terms we will deal with them.

• Foreign Policy

• Veto

• Declare War

• Imposing Taxes