History Vocab!!

4. a formal indication of a choice between two or more candidates or courses of action, expressed typically through a ballot or a show of hands or by voice.
6. a person who is professionally involved in politics, especially as a holder of or a candidate for an elected office.
7. the process of voting in an election
8. a person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference.
9. free from outside control; not depending on another's authority.self-governing.not belonging to or supported by a political party
12. the system or form by which a community is ruled
15. a meeting at which local members of a political party register their preference among candidates running for office or select delegates to attend a convention.
16. cartoonists followed Nast and used the donkey to represent the Democrats
19. The elephant as the symbol for the Republican Party of the United States originated in an 1874 political cartoon
21. a nation's ruler usually by hereditary right
22. a form of government in which the ruler is unconstrained

1. or supporting republican government.
2. belonging to, or characteristic of a republic.
3. 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
5. an agreement between countries covering particular matters, especially one less formal than a treaty.
10. a card perforated according to a code, for controlling the operation of a machine, used in voting machines and formerly in programming and entering data into computers.
11. an advocate or supporter of democracy.
13. a political system governed by a few people
14. a person who is proposed or formally entered as a candidate for an office or as the recipient of a grant or award.
17. an act of voting by the electorate of a country or area.the choice expressed through the votes cast by the electorate.
18. a theory favoring collectivism in a classless society.
20. the piece of paper used to record someone's vote.a process of voting, in writing and typically in secret.