Vocabulary
Trains or buses that transport large numbers of people.
What is Mass Transit?
State Legislatures derive their powers from this.
What are State Constitutions?
This is the largest political subdivision in a state.
What is a County?
This is a government policy that provides employment support to people through job retraining or job placement centers.
What is Workforce Development?
This man was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Civil Rights Era.
Who was Earl Warren?
To limit use or distribution.
What is restrict?
This is a way that legislative branches of state and federal governments are similar.
What are Check and Balance Powers over their respective Executive and Judicial Branches?
In most rural states, the primary function of township government are these two things.
What are Road Building and Maintenance?
This 2008 Supreme Court case upheld a state law requiring voters to show photo id before they could vote.
What was Crawford v. Marion County Election Board.
This person was a student representative of the Loudoun County School Board in Virginia.
Who was Pablo Rivera?
The upkeep of property or equipment.
What is a Maintenance?
These are the two types of legislative sessions at the state level.
What are Regular and Special Sessions?
Normally, this entity serves as the elected legislative body for a town or city.
What is a City Council?
In this process, water, chemicals and sand are injected into the soil to release oil and gas to the surface.
What is Fracking?
This is the only structural requirement for the states in the national constitution.
What is a Republican Government?
a rule that specifies how land in particular parts of a city or county can be used.
What is a Zoning Code?
This 1964 Supreme Court cases ruled that unevenly populated districts violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
What was Reynolds v. Sims?
Early New England town meetings embodied the key elements of this form of government.
What is Direct Democracy?
This is the name given to an geographic area where business owners can receive reduced taxation and regulation in order to spur growth of their businesses.
What are "Enterprise Zones?"
This is another name for a part-time legislature.
What is a Citizen Legislature?
to plead in favor of or support
What is Advocate?
This is the only state that has a unicameral legislature.
What is Nebraska?
For most tribal governments, this serves as the legislative branch.
What is the Tribal Council?
What is a Charter School?
This is the principle of government that divides powers and responsibilities between the national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
This is the name of the man who wrote Federalist 31
What is Alexander Hamilton?