Forms of City Government
A form of local government where there is an elected city council and an elected mayor.
What is a Mayor-Council Government?
The highest court in each state.
What is a State Supreme Court?
The federal congress and 49 state congresses are all ______, meaning they have two houses.
What is bicameral?
Technically a territory, this district is the capital city of the United States of America.
What is Washington D.C. (District of Columbia)?
A form of local government where there is no mayor.
What is a commission?
A process where citizens can fire an elected official before their term is over. It is different from impeachment.
What is a recall?
Lands under U.S. control, but not part of any state.
What is a territory?
The largest state in the United States.
What is Alaska?
The official name for a local government, no matter if its a city, a small town, or farmland.
What is a municipality?
A process where citizens vote directly on laws instead of just for representatives.
What is a referendum?
This is an example of a U.S. territory?
What is Puerto Rico? (or Guam, or the Virgin Islands, or American Samoa, or the Northern Mariana Islands).
This state was purchased from France in 1803, hence all the French names you will find there, such as "New Orleans" and "Baton Rouge."
What is Louisiana?
A form of local government where there is an elected city council who appoints the mayor.
What is Council-Manager Government?
The power some governors have to only veto parts of a bill instead of the whole thing.
What is Line-Item Veto?
A law passed by a local government.
What is an ordinance?
The most recent territory to become a state, happening in 1959.
What is Hawaii?
A professional expert hired by a city council to run the city.
What is a city manager?
A process where citizens can sign a petition to get a potential law on the ballot.
What is an initiative?
This clause requires each state accepts the legal decisions and official records of all states.
What is the full faith and credit clause?
What is California? (or Texas, or Colorado, or Utah, or New Mexico, or Nevada, or Arizona).