| Good quiz, especially for prepping for the AP US Government and Politics test, heh.
Joseph Geary is right, an impeachment is just a formal accusation, and in those cases, particularly done by Congress. The trial is held by the Senate with the Chief Justice as the judge, and that is after the official impeachment.
@Cartophiliac & Joseph Geary: Initiative is a completely different process than referendum. There are three different voter-based processes in government, which are the Initiative Petition, Referendum Vote, and Recall Vote. Initiative is the creation of a new policy by voters via petition, which gets voted on the next official ballot, bypassing the legislature. Referendum is when the legislature places an issue onto the voting ballot, but the issue and bill was initiated inside of the legislature, not by petition. Finally, Recall, as many can recall from the California gubernatorial elections, is the removal of a public official by ballot instead of by impeachment. |