| A | B |
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| Passport | Adocument that lets US citizens travel abroad |
| Veto | an action that the preisdent or govener takes to not sign a bill |
| Cabinet | a group of people that help the president make his decisions more easily |
| Justice | one of the supreme court judges |
| Interior | manages the nations natural resources |
| executive | is a department of the federal government |
| commerce | encourages the us trade and business |
| treaties | a written agreement between nations |
| appeals | the right o fa convicted person to ask ahigher court to appeal his case |
| joint commitees | made of member from both house of congress |
| lobbyist | a person paid to represent an interset groups veiw points |
| standing commitee | a permanant house or senate commitee taht considers bills |
| ex post facto | a law that appeals to an actio the took place before the law awas passed |
| ompeachment | a formal charge bruoght against a government officail |
| house of representatives | a house of congress that includes 435 members |
| cloture | a limit of debate in a bill in the senate |
| delegate | a representative |
| multi party systems | a political system wich many parts play a role in the government |
| independent voters | a voter who is not the member of a political party |
| presidential partyu election | when voters ina state select president candidate they wish their delgates to support |
| stutory laws | law passes by congress and by olawmaking bodies of state or local commitment |
| constitutional laws | law based by the conmsitition and supreme court descions |
| district court | the lower federal court that has originatal jurisdiction in most cases |
| commutation | making a convicted persons sentence less severe |
| native born | an american born as a us citizen |
| president pro-tempore | the officail who presides over the senate in the vice presidents absence |
| visa | a document that allows poeple to visit one country to visti another |
| speaker of bthe house | the presideing officer in the HOR |
| constitutional | anything that agrees wiuth the constitution |
| constitution | a written plan of government |
| bail | money or property an accused person gives to couret to hold as a garuntee that he or she will return to court |
