Gen. Assembly
Executive
Judiciary
Finance
Due Process
100
The redrawing of legislative districts to guarantee representation in both houses.
What is called reapportionment?
100
Formal power exercised by the governor for proposing laws or budgets.
What is chief legislator?
100
Primary function of the judicial branch in Georgia state govt.
What is to interpret the law?
100
The second largest source of Georgia state revenue.
What is the sales tax?
100
Constitutional amendment that guarantees everyone due process of law for citizens in each state.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
System that determines chairmanships of committees in both houses.
What is seniority?
200
Special address given to the state legislature annually outlining priorities.
What is the State of the State Address?
200
Torts, contracts, lawsuits and property rights are examples of this type of law.
What is civil law?
200
This executive office under the governor helps formulates the budget for the fiscal year.
What is the Office of Planning and Budget?
200
Must be read to the suspect after the arrest and taken into custody.
What is the Miranda Warning?
300
Means to create a bill in the legislature in order to become a law.
What is enact?
300
Chief of State and Chief Politician are these types of powers not specifically mentioned in the state constitution.
What are informal powers?
300
Person bringing a lawsuit to court claiming negligence.
Who is the plaintiff?
300
Another name for spending bills passed in the Gen. Assembly.
What are appropriations?
300
Amendment protecting one against self-incrimination.
What is the 5th Amendment?
400
Type of law passed by the state legislature.
What is a statutory law?
400
Term describes the 1000s of employees in the executive branch that carries out policies and helps formulates administrative law.
What is the Bureaucracy?
400
Major crime resulting in prison time for more than one year.
What is a felony?
400
The date the fiscal year ends in Georgia.
What is June 30?
400
The phase for the preliminary hearing of defendant before the magistrate court judge.
What is the Pre-Trial Phase?
500
The number of years (term) for each member elected to the Gen. Assembly.
What is a two-year term?
500
Number of terms a governor can be elected to office by the voters.
What is two terms?
500
This type of lower court handles civil and criminal cases in every county.
What is the Superior Court?
500
The classification for income and property taxes.
What are progressive taxes?
500
Status assigned to a juvenile after being declared unruly by the court and transferred to YDC facility.
What is a delinquent?