Government
TERM
Currency
Federal System
Basic Principles
Separation of Powers
Congress
Two-House Legislature
Checks and Balances
DEFINITION
Any official form of money; type of
money that a country uses
A government form in which power
is divided (or shared) between a
central government and state
governments
Simplest statement or idea that is
accepted as true
Dividing governmental authority
among the three branches of
government: legislative, executive,
and judicial
The legislative branch of the United
States government; elected
representatives; consists of the
Senate and House of
Representatives; makes, amends, and
repeals laws
A legislature having two separate
chambers, usually described as an
upper house and a lower house; the
two houses in the U.S. Congress are
the Senate and House of
Representatives
There are three branches in the
United States government as
established by the Constitution.
First, the legislative branch makes
the laws. Second, the executive
branch executes the laws. Last, the
judicial branch interprets the laws.
Each branch has an effect on the
other because each checks the other
two branches so they do not have too
much power
Opposing Views
Political Parties
Astronomer
Surveyor
Two – Party System
Interfere
Opposite opinions
Political organizations that want to
get and keep political power within
the government; parties often
support ideas that are reinforced by a
written platform with specific goals
A person who studies the stars and
planets
A person who uses the science of
measuring and determining positions
and distances on Earth’s surface
Form of party system where two
major political parties dominate
voting in nearly all elections
To get in the way of each other;
come into opposition