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Powers shared by the state and federal government
What are concurrent powers?
100
Reviewing and regrouping population that each state senator has the same amount of people
How does the process of redistricting work?
100
Defending/accused
What is a defendant?
100
Lower Higher Supreme
How is the court system divided?
100
Money awarded to the states by the federal government
What are Grants-in-aid?
200
Powers that the constitution gives directly to the state
What are reserved powers?
200
Legislative – a group of government officials vote on something they want Popular – from a voters petition
What is the difference between a legislative referendum and a popular referendum?
200
Accusing the defendant
What is a plaintiff?
200
It is located in you county.
Where is the lower court located?
200
To revise legislative districts
What is redistricting?
300
Two-house legislature
What is bicameral?
300
The amount of money you have to spend + the planning of where to spend your money
What is a budget?
300
A type of crime more serious than a misdemeanor, such as murder, rape, kidnapping, or robbery
What is a felony?
300
It is located in your state.
Where is the higher court located?
300
Unequal representation in state legislatures
What is malapportionment?
400
One-house legislator
What is unicameral?
400
Grants prisoner early release Bail – when someone pays a fee to get you out of jail
What is parole? How does it differ from bail?
400
Type of court in which a party who lost a case in a lower court asks judges to review that decision and reverse it
What is an appellate court?
400
Nebraska
What is a state that is unicameral?
400
To veto only a specific part of a bill
What is line-item-veto
500
18-25 years old varies between states, you have to live in the state a certain amount of time
What are the requirements to become a state governor?
500
Lower court – jury & judge decide verdict
Grants prisoner early release Bail – when someone pays a fee to get you out of jail
500
A less serious crime
What is a misdemeanor?
500
The sharing of power between the central and state governments
What is the federal system?
500
A court case in which one party in a dispute claims to have been harmed in some way by the other
What is civil case?
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