Module 11
Public official who prosecutes the more serious criminal cases
What is a district attorney?
The set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians
What is gun control?
The total amount the government owes across all years
What is debt?
A payment of money allowing the accused to be freed pending trial
What is bail?
Who is the current sitting governor?
Governor Gregg Abbot
Government official (four per county) on the county commissioners court whose main duty is the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges
What is a county commissioner?
A policy that collects payments or resources broadly but concentrates direct benefits on relatively few
What is distributive policy?
A detailed forecast of the revenue that the state is expected to take in over the next biennium
What is Biennial Revenue Estimat?
A prosecution pursued twice at the same level of government for the same criminal action
What is double jeopard?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1930s programs to stimulate the national economy
What is the New Deal?
A unit of local government that performs a single service, within a limited geographic area
What is a special district?
A program that guarantees benefits to members of a specific group or segment of the population
What is entitlement?
A tax applied at a lower overall rate as individuals income rises, thus, the tax burden falls more heavily on lower-income individuals
What is regressive tax?
The gradual process of making some guarantees of the Bill of Rights (so far) apply to state governments and the national government
What is selective incorporation?
In New York City’s war on crime, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the detectives of the Major Case Squad
What is Law and Order Criminal Intent?
The rules under which a city operates; local governments have considerable independent governing power under these charters
What is Home-rule charters?
Was signed into law by president Barrack Obama on March 30, 2010
What is the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act?
Taxes applied to specific goods or services as a source of revenue
What is excise taxes?
Private lawyers appointed by judges to provide legal representation for indigent defendants in serious criminal cases
What is assigned counsel?
How many times has the Texas Constitution been amended?
530
An election in which officials are selected by voters of the entire geographical area, rather than from smaller districts within that area
What is an at-large election?
Education reform legislation passed in 1949 that supplemented local funding of education with public monies
What a Gilbert-Aiken Laws
Taxes that multiply the appraised value of a property by a tax rate set by the governing body of the local government
What is ad valorem taxes?
Provisions of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments that guarantee that people will be treated fairly by government officials
What is due process clause?
Who is the current Comptroller of Public Accounts of Texas?
Glenn Hegar