| Term |
Definition |
| Administration |
A team of executive branch officials appointed by each President |
| Ambassador |
Official representatives to foreign governments |
| Biennial |
a event taken place every two years |
| Budget |
A plan budget |
| Bureaucracy |
An organization of government departments,agencies,and offices |
| Cabinet |
An important group of policy advisers to the President,made up of the executive department heads and a few other officials |
| Checks and Balances |
The system that gives each of the three branches of government ways to limit the powers of the other two |
| Commission |
A group pf people, or planning board,appointed to a certain job by local government |
| Commute |
reduce to one less serve |
| Diplomacy |
The relations and communications carried out between countries |
| Electoral College |
a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president. |
| Electors |
People who promise to cast votes for the candidate selected by voters |
| Embassy |
The position of a ambassador |
| Executive Agencies |
A agency of the executive branch of government |
| Executive Departments |
a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States |
| Federalism |
The division of powers between the states and the federal,or national,government |
| Government |
The act or process of governing, especially the control and administration of public policy in a political unit |
| Impeach |
When a majority of the members of the House of Representatives accuse the President or other high government officials,such as a federal judge,of serious wrongdoing |
| Order of Succession |
s the sequence of those entitled to hold a high office such as head of state or an honour such as a title of nobility in the order in which they stand in line to it when it becomes vacated |
| Pardon |
is a government decision to allow a person who has been convicted of a crime to be free and absolved of that conviction, as if he or she were never convicted |
| Regulatory Commission |
Government body formed or mandated under the terms of a legislative act |
| Reprieve |
a cancellation or postponement of a punishment |
| State of the Union |
an annual speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress |
| Separation of Powers |
Dividing government power among legislative,executive,and judicial branches |
| Veto |
a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body. |