Vocabulary
The upkeep of property or equipment
What is maintenance?
State Legislatures derive their powers from this.
What are their State Constitutions?
This is the largest political subdivision in a state.
What is a county?
This is the term that describes a plan adopted by government decision makers to solve a problem or reach a goal.
What is public policy?
This man was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who was Earl Warren?
A meeting of the legislature to deal with pressing problems.
What is a special session?
State lawmaking is limited by this principle of Federalism.
What is state laws cannot conflict with federal laws?
This is a rule that specifies how land in parts of a city or county can be used.
What is a zoning code?
This 2008 Supreme Court case upheld a state law requiring voters to show photo id before they could vote.
What was Crawford v. Marion County Election Board.
This person was a student representative of the Loudoun County School Board in Virginia.
Who was Pablo Rivera?
Trains or buses that transport large numbers of people.
What is mass transit?
These are the two types of legislative sessions at the state level.
What are regular and special?
Normally, this entity serves as the elected legislative body for a town or city.
What is a city council?
In this process, water, chemicals and sand are injected into the soil to release oil and gas to the surface.
What is "fracking?"
Both legislative types have check and balance powers over their respective executive and judicial branches.
To limit use or distribution
What is restrict?
This 1964 Supreme Court cases ruled that unevenly populated districts violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
What was Reynolds v. Sims?
In most rural states, the primary function of township government are these two things.
What are road building and maintenance?
This is the name given to an geographic area where business owners can receive reduced taxation and regulation in order to spur growth of their businesses.
What are "Enterprise Zones?"
This is the only state that doesn't have a bicameral legislature.
What is Nebraska?
To plead in favor of; support
What is advocate?
In this type of primary, all candidates are placed on the same ballot and the top two vote getters proceed onto the general election.
What is a blanket primary?
For most tribal governments, this serves as the legislative branch.
What is the Tribal Council?
This is a government policy that provides employment support to people through job retraining or job placement centers.
What is workforce development?
This is the main reason that people find it easier to participate in local government than at any other layer of government.
What is people are in close proximity to their local governments?