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Tax
| A payment of money that people are required to make to help pay the costs of government. |
Referendum
| Process in which a law (or action) passed by a legislature is placed on a ballot for the voters to give final approval or rejection. |
Implied Powers
| Authority not specifically given to Congress by the Constitution but which is suggested to be necessary and proper to carry out its delegated powers. |
Presiding Officer
| The pwerson who conducts or runs a legislative body. The leader of a group meeting. |
Voting Rights Act of 1965
| Based on the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, this law was created to protect the right of citizens to vote by doing away with the state literacy tests as a requirement to vote. |
Speaker of the House
| The title given to the presiding officer in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the presiding officer of the Maryland House of Delegates. |
Initiative
| A method by which citizens propose a law or amendment that is introduced to the state legislature or is place directly before the voters for their approval. |
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