Civics Terms #3
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- legislative
- of or pertaining to the enactment of laws
- bicameral
- having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body
- compromise
- a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands
- delegate
- A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or an agent. A representative to a conference or convention.
- debate
- To engage in a formal discussion or argument.
- unicameral
- Having or consisting of a single legislative chamber.
- Amendment
- the act or process of amending especially for the better. A change in wording or meaning especially in a law, bill, or motion.
- congress
- A formal assembly of representatives, as of various nations, to discuss problems. The national legislative body of a nation, especially a republic. The national legislative body of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The two-year session of this legislature between elections of the House of Representatives.
- proportional representation
- everyone has like or alike in quantity, degree, value of the act of representing
- House of Representatives
- the lower legislative branch in many national and state bicameral governing bodies, as in the United States, Mexico, and Japan
- dissent
- to differ in opinion or disagree
- federal
- formed by an agreement between political units that surrender supreme authority to a central authority but keep certain powers b : of or being a form of government in which power is distributed between a central authority and individual units
- census
- An official, usually periodic enumeration of a population, often including the collection of related demographic information. In ancient Rome, a count of the citizens and an evaluation of their property for taxation purposes.
- equal representation
- a method of voting by which political parties are given legislative representation in proportion to their popular vote
- Articles of Confederation
- a written agreement ratified in 1781 by the thirteen original states; it provided a legal symbol of their union by giving the central government no coercive power over the states or their citizens
- Three Fifths Compromise
- compromise suggesting that a slave can vote but a slave counts at 3/5 of a normal persons vote
- Connecticut Compromise
- a compromise adopted at the Constitutional Convention, providing the states with equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House of Representatives.
- senate
- an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, esp. a legislative assembly of a state or nation