ch 12 vocab civics
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funnyeet12 on February 27, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 justice of peace | the judge of a small local town |
| misdemeaner | a realitivitly minor offense such as vandislism or stealing inexspenvie items |
| magistrate | police courts generally located in larger towns my handle traffic violations evil case involving small amounts |
| civil case | a person or group taking legal action against person or group |
| defendent | a person being sued for crime |
| felony | a serious crime |
| plaintiff | a person or part filling a lawsuit |
| parole | to veto only a specific part of bill |
| commute | unequal representation in state legislature |
| apportion | divide among districts |
| census | a population count taken by the census bureau |
| unicameral | one house legislature |
| bicameral | two part house |
| grants in aid | money given to the state by the government |
| cocurrent owers | powers shared by the state and federal governments |
| reserved powers | powers that the constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states |
| federal system | the sharing of power btween the central and state government s |
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