Unit Two Vocabulary Classwork

legal or official authority, capacity, or right

• leadership

• freedom

• power

• government

a small group of persons holding simultaneously the principal political executive offices of a nation or other political unit and being responsible for the direction and supervision of public affairs

• government

• power

• rights

• civic action

the quality or state of being free

• leadership

• government

• power

• freedom

capacity to lead

• leadership

• government

• power

• freedom

an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.

• rights

• negotiation

• civic action

• cooperation

mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement:

• rights

• civic action

• negotiation

• cooperation

working to make a difference in the civic life of one's community and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference

• rights

• civic action

• negotiation

• cooperation

qualities (such as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval

• rights

• civic action

• negotiation

• cooperation

The beliefs that support democracy. The founders of our country believed that these were essential for democracy to function as it does

• democratic ideals

• conflict

• compromise

• debate

a discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints:

• democratic ideals

• conflict

• compromise

• debate