Constitutional Vocabulary

Name:__________________

Match the words in the first column to the best available answer in the second column.

 

_____	advocate	1) a paper given by the court which can be used to make a paerson come to court and testify
_____	affirmative action	2) a group of twelve indiviudals who determines the guilt or innocence of one on trial
_____	alliance	3) interference
_____	amend	4) a small part of a larger group
_____	bicameral	5) a person who purchases and uses goods and services
_____	Bill of Rights	6) money given to an individual or business by the government
_____	bribery	7) an accused person is returned to the state where the crime was committed to face trial
_____	budget	8) a government action stopping or restricting trade with another country
_____	cabinet	9) the highest court in the land
_____	censorship	10) the buying and selling of large amounts of goods
_____	change of venue	11) members of a group that make up more than half of the group
_____	commerce	12) distinguishing or separating people by groups
_____	confederation	13) the nickname for the group of executive office officials who aid the president
_____	conservative	14) the Grand Old Party; a nickname given to the Republican party
_____	constitution	15) a person authorized to act on behalf of others at a convention or a conference
_____	consumer	16) relating to one's own country
_____	deficit	17) a plan for how money is to be collected and how it is to be spent
_____	delegate	18) a written plan of government
_____	democracy	19) money paid by citizens to the government
_____	discrimination	20) a cruel and unfair ruler who is not subject to any law or constitution
_____	domestic	21) one house
_____	double jeopardy clause	22) a domestically produced product that is sent out of the country
_____	dove	23) the amount left over when all that is needed or wanted has been used
_____	Electoral College	24) the right to vote
_____	embargo	25) hurling insults and accusations back and forth
_____	eminent domain	26) an army made up of citizens who are called on during times of danger
_____	export	27) a survey of public opinion
_____	extradition	28) a group of people who cast the votes that elect the president and the vice president of the United States
_____	federal	29) someone who favors strong government action to promote social change
_____	founding fathers	30) a person who is fleeing
_____	free market	31) the formal removal of a president or federal judge
_____	fugitive	32) rising prices for goods and services
_____	GOP	33) bringing groups together as equals within a society
_____	grassroots	34) the current holder of an office
_____	hawk	35) relating to a city
_____	impeachment	36) the authority to reject an act proposed by someone else
_____	import	37) a limited period of time duirng which an elected official serves the public
_____	incumbent	38) a formof government
_____	inflation	39) a formal agreement between two or more nations or states
_____	integration	40) any government program that provides financial assistance to people who are poor or out of work
_____	intervention	41) a piece of paper signed by a judge that the police need before they can arrest a person or search a home
_____	jury	42) accepting money or something else of value to determine how you vote on a issue
_____	legislature	43) newspapers
_____	liberal	44) two-house
_____	majority	45) a political system where the people participate in the government
_____	militia	46) a government program that give people money when they reach a certain age or retire
_____	minority	47) the total amount of money the government owes resulting from current and past deficits
_____	monarch	48) someone who tends to resist government involvement in social change and favors a strong defense
_____	mudslinging	49) to support
_____	national debt	50) when the government spends more money than it collects
_____	patriot	51) an economy operating with little government control or interference
_____	platform	52) property taken by the government to be used for the public good
_____	poll	53) to approve in an official manner
_____	popular vote	54) to alter or to change
_____	preamble	55) when the accused asks that his trial be moved to another place to make sure he gets a fair trial
_____	press	56) a person's life and freedom can not be put in danger more than once for the same crime
_____	ratify	57) a system of government that dividies power between a cetnral authority and a number of smaller states
_____	representative	58) a term used to describe groups or movements that are started by ordinary citizens rather than by political parties or organizations
_____	Social Security	59) the first ten amendments of the Constitution
_____	subpoena	60) the 55 men who wrote the Constitution
_____	subsidy	61) the number of votes cast by individual voters in a presidential election
_____	suffrage	62) an international organization founded n 1945 to help bring about peaceful cooperation between the governments of the world
_____	Supreme Court	63) regulations and guidelines established to promote the hiring of minorities
_____	surplus	64) a person who loves
_____	tax	65) a group of states joined loosely for a common purpose
_____	term of office	66) a king or a queen
_____	treaty	67) a person who supports military action to resolve conflicts
_____	tyranny	68) a political party's official position on the issues
_____	tyrant	69) when the government stops the press from telling or printing certain things
_____	unicameral	70) a group of people given the power to pass laws
_____	United Nations	71) a product brought in from another country
_____	urban	72) the introduction to the Constitution
_____	veto power	73) a person who is elected by a group of people to act on their behalf
_____	warrant	74) a person who favors peace and wants to avoid war
_____	welfare	75) a relationship between groups who share a cause