So. Studies Chapter 14
Terms
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- citizen
- a person who was born in a country or who chooses to live in and become a member of a country.
- governor
- the person elected to be the head of government of a state of the United States
- goods
- things that are made or grown that can be sold
- tax
- money paid by people or businesses to support a city, state, or nation
- president
- a person elected by the people to head the government of the United State
- public
- having to do with or for all the people; open to all people
- border
- a line where one country or other area ends and another begins; boundary
- private
- belonging to a particular person or group; not public
- Supreme Court
- the highest court of the United States
- service
- work that someone does for other people, Ex. doctor, police and fire departments, waitress, mechanic
- Constitution
- basic laws and ideas that our national goverment follows
- court
- a place in which questions about the law are decided
- legislature
- a body of persons that has the power to make or pass laws
- Congress
- elected persons who meet to make laws for the United States
- local
- having to do with a particular place; of a certain limited area or place