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Key Terms
Legislative
Branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
100
The largest city in Missouri
What is Kansas City?
100
The division of power between national and state government
What is federalism?
100
Number of members in the Missouri Senate
What is 34?
100
The purpose of the executive branch
What is to enforce the law?
100
This is the purpose of the judicial branch
What is to interpret the law?
200
The 3 cities that have served as Missouri capitals
What are St. Louis, St. Charles, and Jefferson City
200
Name for a two-house legislature
What is bicameral?
200
Number of members in the Missouri House of Representatives.
What is 163?
200
The legnth of term for the governor and the term limits
What is 4 years and 2 terms?
200
Number of judges on the Missouri Supreme Court
What are 7?
300
The year Missouri became a state
What is 1821?
300
When the voters review a law that the legislature has approved
What is the referrendum?
300
Length of term for a state representative and length of term for state senator
What is 2 years and 4 years? (must be in correct order)
300
The governor is commander-in-chief of this
What is the state militia or National Guard?
300
This is the leader of the Supreme Court
What is the chief justice?
400
Missouri was the ____th state admitted to the union
What is 24th?
400
This allows voters to vote on a change in an old law, a new law, or a change in the state constiution
What is the initiative?
400
The officer who is the official president of the Senate and the officer who is in charge of the Senate in place of the president
Who are the lieutenant governor and president pro tempore?
400
The governor can grant these, a forgiveness for an offense and a delay in sentencing
What is a pardon and a reprieve?
400
Court where most criminal and civil cases in Missouri start.
What is the circuit court?
500
This agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
Redrawing the shape and size of legislative districts every 10 years based on population changes
What is reapportionment?
500
The three qualifications to be a member of the Missouri House.
What is at least 24 years of age, a registered voter for at least 2 years, and live in the district for at least 1 year?
500
The 3 qualifications to be governor
What is at least 30 years old, a citizen for at least 15 years, and live in Missouri for a least 10 years?
500
The three districts in the Missouri Court of Appeals and the location of each
What is the eastern district in St. Louis, the western district in Kansas City, and the southern district in Springfield or Poplar Bluff?
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