system of government in which the power is shared by all the people.
What is democracy?
100
branch of government that includes the Supreme Court
What is the Judicial branch?
100
income
What is revenue?
200
an important group of policy advisors to the President, made up of the executive department heads and a few other officials.
What is cabinet?
200
years of a Presidential term
What is 4?
200
differences
What is diversity?
200
the process in which the President gets his job
What is the electoral college?
200
separation, as in separation of one racial group from another
What is segregation?
300
the Supreme Court's power to overturn a law that it decides is in conflict with the Constitution.
What is Judicial Review?
300
number of terms President can serve
What is 2?
300
someone who already holds the office for which he or she is running
What is incumbent?
300
the commander-in-chief of military
Who is the President?
300
system that gives each of the three branches of government ways to limit the powers of the other two.
What is checks and balances?
400
another name of market economy, a system in which people make their own decisions about how to save resources as capital and how to use their capital to produce goods and services.
What is capitalism?
400
branch of government that makes laws.
What is legislative?
400
the situation in which government may not favor any religion or establish an official state religion.
What is separation of church and state?
400
the decision in the court case "Roe v. Wade"
What is it is a woman's right to choose abortion?
400
a court order to produce a witness or document?
What is subpoena?
500
a written plan of government
What is Constitution?
500
branch of the government that includes the Senate
What is legislative?
500
a statement of a party's official stand on major public issues