10 American Government Words

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words my name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about 10 American

government words let's go the first word for today is Congress so Congress is a

part of the United States federal government Congress has a lower house

and an upper house in a sentence the US Congress is made up of the House of

Representatives and the Senate so in this case we're going to talk about

these words later but Congress is composed of the Senate and the House of

Representatives so the next word is president so the president is a very

very famous figure worldwide the president is part of the three branches

of the American government system the president is head of the executive

branch of government in a sentence the US president lives in the White House

the American government has a what we call a checks and balances system so

having three branches of government the idea is that if any one branch of the

government makes a an interesting decision or a bad decision or there's

something that's a problem in any one of the three branches of government the

other branches will fix the error so the president is the head of the executive

branch the next expression is the House of Representatives so the House of

Representatives as I mentioned before is part of Congress Congress is made of the

House of Representatives and the Senate in a sentence the House of

Representatives passes bills which are next sent to the Senate there are

members from each American state in the House of Representatives the people who

are members of the House of Representatives are chosen based on the

population where they come from the next expression is Senate so as I mentioned

before the Senate is part of the US Congress Senate and the House of

Representatives are these two components these two houses in the US Congress in a

sentence the u.s. vice-president is president of the Senate the Senate

is different there are two people from each state two members of the Senate for

each state that means each state has an equal number of Representatives in the

Senate all right so this next word is bill bill I mentioned this earlier in an

example sentence a bill is a piece of legislation so legislation means like a

a policy or a law or a set of rules relating to the government a bill

however is different from a law because a bill is not yet a law in a sentence

new bills are introduced to Congress every year so a bill is something that

needs to be discussed and considered among members of Congress among

government officials and so on okay the next word is Senator Senator in the

Senate there is a specific word for people who are members of the Senate so

in a sentence there are two senators from each u.s. state every state has two

senators so those are two members from each state who are members of the Senate

the next word is representative representative so just like the Senate

and Senators in the House of Representatives we say representative

for the members of the House of Representatives so in this example

sentence state representatives are determined by population or rather the

number of state representatives are determined by population so senator and

representative are words we use to talk about members of the Senate and the

House of Representatives the next word is to elect to elect so to elect someone

to elect a government official means to choose a government official for a

government position so to elect a president to elect a may be a vice

president in a sentence representatives are elected based on votes you can use

elect in your community too depending on your your country or your

system you might elect government officials or you might even elect people

to things in your school for example like you might elect a treasurer for

your school so to elect means to choose someone to lead

you in some way so to elect a leader all right the next word is an interesting

word it's to impeach to impeach there are a few different definitions for

impeach but when talking about the American government to impeach we can

say it means to remove someone from office to cancel their government

official status so in a sentence there's talk on the news of impeaching a

government official usually when we impeach someone or

attempt to impeach someone it's because they are accused of bad behavior

misconduct bad conduct bad behavior and then as a result they are removed from

government office so we use the verb to impeach so the next word is to vote to

vote so depending on the country depending on the system the government

system in your country maybe you can or cannot vote I don't know

but to vote means to make a choice the person you would like to elect to a

government position so maybe you can vote for a president or a prime minister

so in a sentence it's important to vote to vote means to choose personally to

vote for blah blah blah I want to vote for president I want to vote for a

representative in my community it means to choose and then to give your

selection like to to participate in an election you're making the choice to

vote okay so that's the end so those are ten American government words I hope

that those are helpful for talking about the American government and for maybe

comparing the American government with the government in your country if you

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