10 American Government Words
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hi everybody and welcome back to top
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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