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- line of succession
- the order or seguence in shich executive officers become governor
- financial
- having to do with the management ans use of money
- commander-in-chief
- the supreme comander of all armed forces
- compromise
- a way to settle differences between groups in which each group gives up some of its claims and agrees to the demeands of others
- hearing
- a formal session for listening to testimony, to give evidence
- pardon
- to release a person form punishment or disfavor
- specail interest groups
- organized groups of citizens that share a common concern over specific issues
- majority
- more than half of the total
- reduction veto
- a veto that changes the appropriation of money being spent
- amenditory veto
- a veto suggesting a charge or addition to a bill
- commutation
- the act of lessing or making something less severe, as a death penaltyor prison sentence
- oringinal jurisdiction
- the first court to have authority to hear a case
- judicial
- the part of the government that carries out justice and explains the laws
- retention
- to continue
- incorporated
- to form into a legal goeverning body
- veto
- the right of a governor to reject a bill
- conference committee
- a special group of law makers organized to work out differences when the hosue and senate pass different forms of the same bill
- amend
- to change or add to a motion, law or constitution
- appropriation bill
- a bill which requires money to be set aside for a specific purpose
- revision
- a change or modification
- override
- to declair null and vold, set aside
- eligible
- qualiflied for a group, position, or privilege
- lobbyists
- organized groups that seek to influence legislators
- reprieve
- postponement of a punishment
- appeal
- to have a case reviewed by a higher court
- amendatory veto
- a veto which a change or addition to a bill
- amendment
- a change in a bill or law
- appoint
- to select for an office, position, or duty
- resdtricted
- kept within certain limits
- vacancy
- a position or office that is unfilled or unoccupied
- bill
- a proposed law