bicameral - having two separate lawmaking chambers, amendment - a change, correction, or improvement added to a document, compromise - a settlement of a dispute by each side giving up some demands, depression - a period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases, republic - a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives, judicial branch - the branch of government that interprets the law; it includes courts that settle disputes and questions of the law, legislative branch - lawmaking branch of government, depreciate - to fall in value, checks and balances - a system by which each branch of government limits the powers of other branches so that one branch does not become too powerful, proportional - having the proper size in relation to other objects or items, federalism - a form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and state governments, Electoral College - special group of electors chosen to vote for president and vice president, manumission - the freeing of individual enslaved persons, executive branch - branch of government that executes, or carries out, the law; headed by the president, ordinance - a law or regulation,

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