Government Vocab

2. a form of government in which political control is exercised by all the people, either directly or
5. a person chosen to act for or represent others, as at a convention
8. the system of government in which power is held by the people and exercised
10. formal approval
11. the constitutional power of the president to refuse to sign a bill passed by Congress preventing it from
12. through elected representatives
13. citizens have the power to govern and citizens give power to leaders they elect to
17. the power of the courts to declare laws and actions of the government invalid if they violate the
18. each branch has a specific job and power so that no one branch would have all the power
20. citizen’s basic rights and freedoms
21. to change
22. their elected representative

1. every individual, including the governmental officials, must obey the law
3. the distribution and balancing of power among different branches of government so that no
4. the right to vote
6. the number of delegates in the House of Representatives based of population
7. a system of government in which power is shared between the central (national) government and the
9. them and their interests
14. a government in which the people rule. They have the supreme power in the government
15. a law
16. the people represented by an elected official
19. branch is able to dominate the others