Unit 3 Vocabulary

Popular Sovereignty

• Political theory that the government is created by and subject to the will of the people

• A social group made up of many families, clans or generations that share the same language, customs and beliefs.

• To make minor changes in text in order to make it more accurate

• A group of people appointed for a specific purpose, usually included in a larger group

Republic

• A set of ideas or plans that is used as a basis for making decisions, specifically in politics

• A government where the power is in the people and exercised by the people

• A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives

• To make legally void or to invalidate

Tribe/ Tribal

• Political theory that the government is created by and subject to the will of the people

• A social group made up of many families, clans or generations that share the same language, customs and beliefs.

• To make minor changes in text in order to make it more accurate 

• To make legally void or to invalidate

Legislate, legislation or legislature

• To make minor changes in text in order to make it more accurate

• A set of ideas or plans that is used as a basis for making decisions, specifically in politics

• A group of people appointed for a specific purpose, usually included in a larger group

• To create laws, the laws themselves or the body of people who creates the laws

Policy

• A set of ideas or plans that is used as a basis for making decisions, specifically in politics

• A group of people appointed for a specific purpose, usually included in a larger group

• A government where the power is in the people and exercised by the people

• To manipulate the boundaries an area of voters to favor a certain party

Amend/ Amendment

• To create laws, the laws themselves or the body of people who creates the laws

• To make minor changes in text in order to make it more accurate 

• Political theory that the government is created by and subject to the will of the people

• A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives

Democracy/ Democratic

• A group of people appointed for a specific purpose, usually included in a larger group

• To manipulate the boundaries an area of voters to favor a certain party

• An assembly of people summoned for consultation or advice

• A government where the power is in the people and exercised by the people

Council

• To make minor changes in text in order to make it more accurate

• To make legally void or to invalidate

• An assembly of people summoned for consultation or advice

• Political theory that the government is created by and subject to the will of the people

Committee

• An assembly of people summoned for consultation or advice

• To manipulate the boundaries an area of voters to favor a certain party

• A set of ideas or plans that is used as a basis for making decisions, specifically in politics

• A group of people appointed for a specific purpose, usually included in a larger group

Nullify/ Nullification

• To make legally void or to invalidate

• To manipulate the boundaries an area of voters to favor a certain party

• An assembly of people summoned for consultation or advice

• To create laws, the laws themselves or the body of people who creates the laws