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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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