Local Leaders
Arrests lawbreakers, commands deputies and staff, and carries out orders of the county courts.
Who is the county SHERIFF?
Local governments of all types must obey these two documents
What is the VA and US Constitution?
This is the name of the state legislature.
What is the GENERAL ASSEMBLY?
This is the branch of government responsible for establishing the government's budget.
What is the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH?
This is the top elected official in a town.
Who is the mayor?
The legislative body of a town.
What is the TOWN COUNCIL?
What are the HOUSE OF DELEGATES and the VA SENATE?
This is the right of a court to hear a case; a vocabulary word.
What is JURISDICTION?
This is the top elected official in a city.
Who is the mayor?
This is the group of people that are elected to run the school district.
What is the SCHOOL BOARD?
What is the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH?
What is CHECKS AND BALANCES?
A group of citizens “request permission” from this group in order to become a legally established town.
What is the General Assembly?
A town's executive officer, hired by the town council.
What is a TOWN MANAGER?
This is the group of people that run state departments and agencies; they advise the Governor.
What is the CABINET?
What is APPELLATE JURISDICTION (APPEAL)?
This is the document that “gives permission” to a group of citizens that allows them to establish a town in Virginia.
What is a CHARTER?
Laws passed by local government are known as what?
What are ORDINANCES?
This is the constitutional concept that the federal and state governments share power over citizens.
What is FEDERALISM?
These are your five First Amendment freedoms.
What are religion, assembly, press, petition, and speech?
This is the group of citizens elected to oversee a county in Virginia.
What is the BOARD OF SUPERVISORS?
These are the three types of local government in Virginia.
What are TOWNS, CITIES, AND COUNTIES?
What are RESERVED POWERS?
What is DISTRICT COURT, US COURT OF APPEALS, and the US SUPREME COURT?