Government Voabulary

The branch that makes laws

• legislative branch

• executive branch

• judicial branch

• cabinet

The branch that carries out or executes laws

• legislative branch

• executive branch

• judicial branch

• cabinet

The branch that interprets laws and settles disagreements about them

• legislative branch

• executive branch

• judicial branch

• cabinet

An agreement in which a side gives up some of what they want

• veto

• check and balances

• rule of law

• compromise

a group of advisers to the president, including the head of important departments in the executive branch

• impeach

• cabinet

• veto

• checks and balances

to accuse or charge a government official, such as the president with a crime of misconduct

• rule of law

• veto

• checks and balances

• impeach

to reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law, this power only belongs to the president

• veto

• impeach

• compromise

• rule of law

the system in which each branch of government limits or checks the power of other branches

• cabinet

• veto

• rule of law

• check and balances

a set of public laws that apply to all people equally with no one getting special treatment

• rule of law

• compromise

• veto

• impeach