Vocabulary
What is a legislature made up of two houses?
What is bicameral?
What is the branch of government that is in charge of making laws at the federal level?
What is the legislative branch?
What is the main source of funding for county government?
What are property and sales taxes?
What is the term for a law-making body?
What is a legislature?
Who is the elected official that carries out and enforces laws at the federal level?
Who is the President?
Name two examples of services provided by state government departments.
What are education and public safety?
What do we call the areas that contain roughly the same number of citizens for electing representatives?
What are districts?
What is the name of the Texas legislative body that makes laws?
What is the Texas Legislature?
What type of government manages waste management and public works at
the municipal level?
What is the process that lets citizens place a law on the ballot to be voted on?
What is an initiative?
Who interprets the laws at the state level in Texas?
Who is the State Supreme Court?
What types of services do county governments maintain?
What are parks and roads?
What is the money the federal government gives a state for a certain purpose that doesn’t need to be paid back?
What is a grant?
What is the executive branch at the city level in Bastrop called?
What is the City Manager?
Name one department that provides services at the municipal level.
What is the Department of Public Works?