Social Studies Practice

A person who seeks to be elected or appointed to a certain position.

• government

• candidate

• elect

• Constitution

A choice in an election or other group decision.

• court

• laws

• vote

• group

A unit of government designed to make and enforce laws within a city or town.

• federal government

• judicial branch

• state government

• local government

A system of government that unites several states under a central government.

• federal government

• local government

• state government

• judicial

Any group of people living together in a country, state, or local community that has to live by certain rules.

• elect

• government

• constitution

• candidate

makes the laws of the United States, controls the money, and can declare war.

• judicial branch

• executive branch

• legislative branch

• local government

to choose by means of voting

• government

• candidate

• constitution

• elect

the set of basic laws by which a nation, state, or other organization is governed.

• the constitution

• executive branch

• local government

• government

carries out the laws, the president is the leader of this branch.

• judicial branch

• government

• executive branch

• legislative branch

A unit of government designed to make and enforce laws within a state.

• local government

• state government

• federal government

• government