- Convention: an assembly or meeting
 - Govern: to rule
 - Executive: the president or the head of government
 - Legislative/Legislature: the part of government that makes laws.
 - Bicameral: 2 houses
 - Unicameral:1 house
 - Judicial: the branch of judges and Supreme Court
 - Federal: Power divided between the nationaland state governments.
 - Voting Power: the right to vote