Chapter 12 Social Studies

To found or BRING INTO EXISTENCE.

• establish
• authority

• fine

• enforce

The POWER to GIVE ORDERS or make decisions.

• authority
• fine

• establish

• enforce

MONEY that must be PAID as a punishment for breaking a law.

• fine
• authority

• establish

• enforce

To MAKE SURE that rules or laws are OBEYED.

• enforce
• fine

• authority

• establish

To act or SPEAK FOR SOMEONE ELSE.

• represent
• jail

• promote

• U.S. Constitution

A building in which a government keeps people who are WAITING FOR A TRAIL or who HAVE BEEN FOUND GUILTY of breaking the law.

• jail
• promote

• representative democracy

• represent

A government where THE PEOPLE VOTE for (elect) a smaller group of citizens to make the laws for everyone.

• representative democracy

• jail

• promote

• U.S. Constitution

The WRITTEN PLAN for the U.S. GOVERNMENT that says what the government can and cannot do.

• U.S. Constitution

• jail

• promote

• represent

To SUPPORT the GROWTH of or further the progress of.

• promote
• represent

• jail

• representative democracy

WHO gives governments the authority to make and enforce laws?

• the president

• the people

• military officer

• the state governor