The redrawing of legislative districts to guarantee representation in both houses.
What is called reapportionment?
Formal power exercised by the governor for proposing laws or budgets.
What is chief legislator?
Primary function of the judicial branch in Georgia state govt.
What is to interpret the law?
The second largest source of Georgia state revenue.
What is the sales tax?
Constitutional amendment that guarantees everyone due process of law for citizens in each state.
What is the 14th Amendment?
System that determines chairmanships of committees in both houses.
What is seniority?
Special address given to the state legislature annually outlining priorities.
What is the State of the State Address?
Torts, contracts, lawsuits and property rights are examples of this type of law.
What is civil law?
This executive office under the governor helps formulates the budget for the fiscal year.
What is the Office of Planning and Budget?
Must be read to the suspect after the arrest and taken into custody.
What is the Miranda Warning?
Means to create a bill in the legislature in order to become a law.
What is enact?
Chief of State and Chief Politician are these types of powers not specifically mentioned in the state constitution.
What are informal powers?
Person bringing a lawsuit to court claiming negligence.
Who is the plaintiff?
Another name for spending bills passed in the Gen. Assembly.
What are appropriations?
Amendment protecting one against self-incrimination.
What is the 5th Amendment?
Type of law passed by the state legislature.
What is a statutory law?
Term describes the 1000s of employees in the executive branch that carries out policies and helps formulates administrative law.
What is the Bureaucracy?
Major crime resulting in prison time for more than one year.
What is a felony?
The date the fiscal year ends in Georgia.
What is June 30?
The phase for the preliminary hearing of defendant before the magistrate court judge.
What is the Pre-Trial Phase?
The number of years (term) for each member elected to the Gen. Assembly.
What is a two-year term?
Number of terms a governor can be elected to office by the voters.
What is two terms?
This type of lower court handles civil and criminal cases in every county.
What is the Superior Court?
The classification for income and property taxes.
What are progressive taxes?
Status assigned to a juvenile after being declared unruly by the court and transferred to YDC facility.
What is a delinquent?