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Category:Terms and definitions
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Definitions of terms related to elections, congress, state executives, state legislatures, ballot measures and initiatives.
Subcategories
This category has the following 25 subcategories, out of 25 total.
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- Education policy terms (69 P)
- Election terms (95 P)
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- Federal terms and definitions (15 P)
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- Judicial terms and definitions (81 P)
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- Local courts terms (empty)
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- Municipal government terms (25 P)
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- SBE term templates (12 P)
- School terms (8 P)
- SCOTUS terms and definitions (1 P)
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- Terms and definition images (1 F)
Pages in category "Terms and definitions"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 359 total.
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- Academic performance
- Acting officeholder
- Ad valorem tax
- Administrative officials
- Advanced to Runoff
- Agriculture Commissioner (state executive office)
- Amicus brief
- Appellate jurisdiction
- Appointment confirmation process
- Approved
- Arbitration
- Arkansas local officials
- Associate Justice
- Attorney General (state executive office)
- Audit Reports
- Auditor (state executive office)
- Audits
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C
- California Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017
- Campaign communications
- Campaign finance methodology
- Campaign manager
- Checkbook register online
- Chief Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court
- Chief Justice
- Chief petitioner
- Circulator affidavit
- Citizen
- City
- City manager
- Civil law (common law)
- Civil procedure
- Clarity and factual hearings for Michigan recalls
- Cloture
- Codes and Canons of Judicial Conduct
- Colorado clerks of court and recorders
- Colorado county attorneys
- Colorado directors of human services
- Colorado grants administrators
- Colorado public health directors
- Colorado public trustees
- Colorado sheriffs
- Colorado tax collectors
- Common Core State Standards Initiative
- Common law
- Commonwealth
- Compensation
- Conservatism
- Consolidated city-county government
- Constable
- Constituency
- Constitution (document)
- Constitutional article
- Constitutional officers
- Continuing legal education
- Contracts
- Controller (state executive office)
- Cost of living adjustment
- Council-manager government
- County
- County assessor
- County auditor
- County clerk
- County commission
- County council
- County executive
- County seat
- County sheriff
- County treasurer
- Currency manipulation
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- User:Dave Beaudoin/Sandbox Impeachment of Ken Paxton
- Defeated
- Defense of Marriage Amendments
- Deferred action
- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
- Deferred Action for Parents of U.S. Citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA)
- Democracy
- Difficult
- Disclosure
- Disenfranchisement
- District attorney
- District clerk
- Divisions
- Double dipping
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- Earmarks
- Education terms and definitions
- Elected officials
- Election
- Election integrity
- Elector
- Electoral College
- Electorate
- Eligible voter
- Emergency clause
- Eminent domain
- Employee and employer contributions
- Energy terms and definitions
- Equalized mills
- Ethics
- Every Student Succeeds Act
- Evidence (law)
- Evidence-based medicine
- Executive branch
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- General jurisdiction
- General obligation bond
- Genuine Progress Indicator
- Glossary of education terms
- Glossary of energy terms
- Glossary of finance policy terms
- Glossary of pension terms
- Glossary of recall terms
- Glossary of state budget terms
- User:Glossary of state budget terms SANDBOX
- Government
- Government transparency
- Governor (state executive office)
- Grand jury
