State and Local Government Vocabulary

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  1. 3. a person who brings a case against another in a court of law.
  2. 7. the elected head of a city, town, or other municipality.
  3. 8. a city or town that has corporate status and local government.
  4. 9. a sum of money or total of assets devoted to a special purpose.
  5. 13. a general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision.
  6. 14. an organization that has the power to make and enforce laws
  7. 15. not in accordance with a political constitution, especially the US Constitution, or with procedural rules.
  8. 16. the holder of an office or post.
  9. 17. (of a legislative or deliberative assembly) consisting of people chosen to act and speak on behalf of a wider group.
  10. 18. the process of passing legislation;a process of acting something out.
  11. 19. town council, town board, or board of aldermen is the legislative body that governs a city, town, municipality or local government area.
  12. 20. propose or formally enter as a candidate for election or for an honor or award.
  13. 22. the release of an offender from detention, subject to a period of good behavior under supervision.
  14. 23. a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
  15. 25. income, especially when of a company or organization and of a substantial nature.
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  1. 1. the official power to make legal decisions and judgments.
  2. 2. a minor wrongdoing
  3. 4. a year as reckoned for taxing or accounting purposes.
  4. 5. a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime.
  5. 6. a United States state legislature; the supreme deliberative body of the United Nations.
  6. 10. typically of a young person or that person's behavior) showing or characterized by a tendency to commit crime, particularly minor crime.
  7. 11. make (a bill or other proposal) law.
  8. 12. laws, considered collectively.
  9. 21. the elected executive head of a state of the US.
  10. 24. bring (a fact, event, or situation) back into one's mind, especially so as to recount it to others