Vocab SS
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- presides
- to hold the position of authority, as at a meeting
- sole
- only
- referendum
- placing an issue directly before the voters rather than deciding it through a legislative body
- ajourn
- to bring to an offical close
- impeachment
- to charge a public offical with misconduct in office
- convene
- to assemble or gather
- the floor
- the place of a legislative chamber where busniess is
- bicameral
- consists of two houses
- felony
- a serious crime, such as a murder or burglary
- constitutional amendment
- a legal addition or change in a law of the constitution
- Bonds
- certificates that governments sell to raise money
- resident
- a person who makes his or her home in a particular place
- breach of peace
- disturbing the peace
- Qualifications
- skills or requirements that a person needs for a particular task
- treason
- betrayal of one's country, espacially be giving aid to the enemy in wartime or platting to overthrow the government
- immunity
- freedom from certain penalties or duties
- Disqualification
- to be declaired unfit
- standing committees
- permanent committees to stufy variuoes types of legislation
- registration
- making an offical record
- legislator
- a law maker
- majority party
- the political party with the most members elected to the legislature
- quorum
- the minimum number of members needed to conduct
- general election
- an election inwhich voters from each party vote for candidates who will run for office inthe general election
- session
- a meeting or series of meetings of a legislative body
- re-districting
- a process by which a state is divided into new districts according to population