State Government
The Chief Executive of a state.
What is the Governor?
A group that advances common goals and tries to win elections to put those goals into action.
What is a political party?
The smallest political unit of local government.
What is a precinct or ward?
Legal process of returning a criminal from one state to the state where he is charged.
What is extradition?
E.H. Crump
What is Memphis, TN?
Having two chambers in the legislature.
What is bicameral?
Only voters, registered with a particular party, may participate in the party's primary elections.
What is a closed primary?
Subdivision of a state; in some states it is call a parish or borough.
What is a county?
This requires states to respect each other's public acts, records, and judicial proceedings.
What is full faith and credit?
Harry Byrd
What is Virginia?
This form of government is guaranteed to each state by the Constitution.
What is a republican government?
An organization in which a strong, authoritarian "boss" or small group of people commands the loyalty of supportors and rewards them for their loyalty.
What is a political machine?
An outdated, seldom used form of city government?
What is a Commission Government?
What is reciprocity?
Boss Tweed
What is New York City?
States ' constitutional retain all powers not specifically delegated to the national government.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Above the county committee?
What is the state executive committee?
Level of government that is independent of city or county governments and established to provide a specific function.
What is a special district?
A legally specified number of voters can propose changes to their constitutions or to charters or laws.
What is an initiative?
Huey Long
What is Louisiana?
This form of tax makes up the largest percentage of state tax revenue across all fifty states.
What is/are property taxes?
In this type of primary, candidates are not identified on the ballot with any particular party, and the top two vote-getters face off in a General election.
What is top-two method?
Form of city government by which a legislative body passes laws that are enforced by a hired professional administrator.
What is a council-manager system?
Article IV, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the privileges and immunities clause?
Theodore Bilbo
What is Mississippi?