| A | B |
|---|
| Appeal | To ask a higher court to change a lower court's ruling |
| Checks and balances | Sharing and balancing of power among the different branches of government so no once branch can dominate the others |
| Coalition | Alliance of groups or people to achieve a common goal |
| Comply | To follow a rule or law |
| Disabled | Unable to use a part of the body completely; handicapped |
| Federal guidelines | Specifications regarding how a law or regulation must be carried out |
| Federalism | Form of government in which power is divided between a central government and subdivisions such as state and local governments |
| Impeach | To charge a public official with a cirme committed while he or she is in office |
| Judicial Review | Power of courts to declare laws and actions of the local, state, or national government invalid if they violate the Constitutuion |
| Motion | Suggestion made formally at a meeting and then decided on by voitng |
| Nomination | Act of choosing someone for a particular job or to be a candidiate in an election |
| Obstruction of public property | Act of preventing people from entering a public building or public land that anyone can use |
| Ruling | Official decision about a legal problem |
| Separation of powers | Division of control among different branches of government; in the United States, division among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches |
| Unconstitutional | Not in accordance with or permitted by the laws that govern a country |
| Veto | To forbid; constitutuional power of the U.S. president to refuse to sign a bill passed by congress |
