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govern: To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.

Government: The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws for a country, land area, people, or organization.

Constitution: The supreme law of some countries, such as Australia, Ireland, and the United States.

Executive branch: The branch of government that oversees the carrying out of the laws

Accountable: Having accountability (individuals have accountability).

Assimilation: The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

Bias: .prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

Legislative branch: The branch of government which is concerned with the making of laws

Constituent: authorized to make a constitution

Popular vote: an act of voting by the electorate of a country or area

Minority: Any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority.

Judicial branch: The branch of government which is concerned with the administration of justice through the interpretation of the law

Civil service: In parliamentary forms of government, the branches of government that are not military, legislative or judicial, but work to apply its laws and regulations

Parliamentary democracy: form of government in which the party (or a coalition of parties) with the greatest representation in the parliament (legislature) forms the government

Democracy: Rule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives (representative democracy).

Prime Minister: In a parliamentary democracy, the chief member of the cabinet and head of the government; usually the leader of the majority party.

Parliamentary Press Gallery: The Parliamentary Press Gallery is an association established to oversee rules and responsibilities of Canadian journalists when at Parliament Hill. The organization was formed the same year as Canada's Confederation in 1867, by The Honourable Thomas Whit

Private Members Bill: a bill introduced into a legasture by a legistrator who is not acting on behalf of the exacutive branch

Representation by Population: is a method by which seats are allocated in the House of Commons in such a way as to vary with population. The higher the population of a province, the larger the number of seats allocated to that province will be

Watchdog: a person or organization that monitors and publicizes the behavior of others (individuals, corporations, governments) to discover undesirable activity.

Governor General: governor general, a specific case of

Monarch: The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.

Senate: A legislative body in many countries.

House of Commons: The lower house of the UK and Canadian Houses of Parliament

Supreme Court: The highest court in a legal jurisdiction.

Member of Parliament: A representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to the lower house of a parliament.

Portfolio: the collection of such documents, especially the works of an artist or photographer

Riding: An electoral district in Canada, also known as a "constituency" or a "riding", is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based. It is officially known in Canadian French as a circonscription, but frequently called a co

Official Opposition: In Canada, Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition (French: L'Opposition Loyale de Sa Majesté), commonly known as the Official Opposition, is usually the largest parliamentary opposition party in the House of Commons or a provincial legislative assembly that is n

Political Party: A political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government

Bill: a draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion.

Constituency Map: A body of voters in a specified area who elect a representative to a legislative body as a map

Electoral System: A voting system or electoral system consists of the set of rules which must be followed for a vote to be considered valid, and how votes are counted and aggregated to yield a final result. It is a method by which voters make a choice between candidates, o

federal Accountability Act: The Federal Accountability Act (full title: "An Act providing for conflict of interest rules, restrictions on election financing and measures respecting administrative transparency, oversight and accountability", here in this article shorthanded to FedAA)

Judge: A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.

Law: the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties.

Lobbyist: A person who for remuneration reattempts to persuade (to lobby) politicians to vote in a certain way.

Minority Government: a government in which the governing party has most seats but still less than half the total.

Majority Government: A majority government is a government formed by a governing party that has an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or parliament in a parliamentary system

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