Vocab 11

a person who owes allegiance to a government and is protected by it

• citizen

• elections

• bicameral

• rights

the process of voting to choose a person for office

• bicameral

• citizen

• legislature

• elections

an organized body of persons having the authority to make laws

• bicameral

• elections

• legislature

• federal

consisting of two legislative chambers

• bicameral

• confederation

• elections

• legislature

a permission to do something or an entitlement to a specific service or treatment from others

• citizen

• executive

• rights

• constitution

the basic beliefs and laws of a nation, state, or social group that establish the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it

• executive

• constitutional monarchy

• constitution

• federal

of or relating to the carrying out of laws and the conduct of public and national affairs

• federal

• constitution

• confederation

• executive

government in which a monarch shares power with a constitutionally organized government

• constitutional monarchy

• citizen

• rights

• elections

of or being a form of government in which power is distributed between a central government and individual states

• federal

• confederation

• bicameral

• blockade

a union of sovereign states which ceded some limited powers to the national (confederal) government.

• constitutional monarchy

• executive

• confederation

• rights