Government

• The constitution is supreme law of the land
• Absentee Voting

  way people vote when they cant get to the polling place
• Bias Leaning in favor or against something orsomeone
• Bills Legislative proposal that if passed by both the House and the Senate and approved by president becomes a LAW
• Candidate

  Person who seeks or who has been suggested to run for office or position
• Constituency

  All voters in a particular district
• Constituent

  Having the right to vote or elect; any of the voters represented by a particular official
• Debate

  Face to face discussion of candidates view on issues
• Delegate

  An individual who is appointed to represent others
• Democracy

  Government by the people through free and frequent elections
• Election day

  The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, national elections are held for the President and Vice President in years evenly divisible by four. On even years, voters elect members of the House of Representatives for two-year terms and one-third of the Senate for six-year terms.
• Grassroots

  The involvement of common citizens.
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  Independent

  A candidate not belonging to one of the major political parties.
• issues 


  Problems, ideas to be talked about, questions, decided upon and voted on.
• Landslide 


  An election in which one candidate defeats the other by a very large margin.
• Law 


  An act of Congress that has been signed by the President or passed over his veto by Congress. The two digits before the hyphen correspond to the Congress, and the one or more digits after the hyphen refer to the numerical sequence in which the bills were signed by the President during that Congress.
• Mudslinging 


  Negative, often personal, frequently inaccurate or exaggerated attacks of the opposition.
• Party 


  A group of people who join together because they share many ideas about what the government should do.
• Platform 


  A public statement of the principles, objectives, and policy of a political party, a plan.
• Ratified 


  Formal approval by voters or other persons.
• Running Mate


  A presidential candidate will choose another individual to run for vice president. This person is the candidate's running mate.
• Veto 


  A power that allows the President, a governor, or a mayor to refuse approval of a piece of legislation.
• Pocket Veto

  When the president ignores the bill for too long it automatically becomes an indirect veto
• incumbent


  A person now holding an office.
• Naturalization

  The process by which someone born outside of the US becomes a citizen
• Amendment 15

  Any race can vote
• Amendment 19

  Women can vote
• Amendment 24

  No polling taxes
• Branches of Gov

  Legislative , Executive, Judicial
• The judicial branch Reviews / interprets
• The legislative branch Makes the laws
• The Executive branch Executes the law
• Democratic party

  Political party of the current president right now
• The President

  Who is the commander in chief of military
• The speaker of the House of Rep

  Who becomes president if both the president and VP cant
• How many justices are in the Supreme Court?

  9
• Chief justice of the united states

  John G. Robert JR
• Two major political parties

  Democratic and republican party
• The US fought against Italy, Japan, and Germany during World War I.
• Alaska borders Canada.