State and Local Government

A legislature made up of two houses

• unicameral

• bicameral

• legislature

• district

The state's lawmaking body

• district

• bicameral

• legislature

• executive

States are divided into representative groups called

• legislatures

• districts

• departments

• legislators

the head of the state's executive branch is the

• governor

• legislature

• superior court

• department head

a state's executive branch is divided into

• districts

• departments

• houses

• courts

the trial-level courts at the state level are called

• supreme courts

• appeals courts

• superior courts

• district courts

the law of the land at the state level is the

• referendum

• initiative

• governing branch

• state's constitution

a process that allows citizens in some states to draft laws they would like to see adopted is called

• a referendum

• a grant

• an initiative

• a regulation

a process that allows citizens to vote on a law already passed by a state's legislature is called

• an initiative

• a grant

• a regulation

• a referendum

the basic support systems of a geographic area that provide the roads, water supply, electricity and other needs is called

• infrastructure

• referendum

• grant

• constitution