Chapter 9 Vocabulary

The President's group of advisors is called?

• cabinet

• closet

• drawer

• committee

a precedent is ______

• someone in charge of the United States

• something said or done that becomes an example for others to follow

• a person living in a country who is not a citizen of that country

• seizing people against their will and forcing them to serve in the military or other public service

a certificate that promises to repay borrowed money in the future, plus interest

• precedent

• nullify

• bond

• partisan

impressment is the seizing of people against their will and forcing them to join the military or other public service

• True

• False

firmly favoring one party or faction

• sedition

• alien

• caucus

• partisan

A meeting of members of a political party to choose candidates for the upcoming election

• states' rights

• alien

• caucus

• nullify

a person living in a country who not a citizen of that country

• alien

• precedent

• cabinet

• nullify

the idea that states should have all the powers that the Constitution does not give to the federal government or forbid to the states is states' rights

• True

• False

to legally overturn is to?

• impressment

• bond

• nullify

• caucus

activities aimed at weaking the established government by inciting resistance or rebellion to authority

• sedition

• bond

• alien

• precedent