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Tame the Terminology Dragons with a Glossary on the internet:

• Glossary
  By C-SPAN, (National Cable Satellite Corp.), c1999.
  Under revision as of 9/99.
  
  
• Senate Glossary
  By the United States Senate. A good glossary for common and obscure terms. Example:
  Act: "Legislation (a bill or joint resolution, see below) which has passed both chambers of Congress in identical form, been signed into law by the President, or passed over his veto, thus becoming law. Technically, this term also refers to a bill that has been passed by one house and engrossed (prepared as an official copy)."

• FindLaw [Dictionary] [Web Site]. Mountain View CA: Find Law.
  Accessed March 15, 2002.
  http://dictionary.lp.findlaw.com/
  Offers a search window and uses Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law to provide definitions of legal terms.
  Example:
  Pocket Veto: "A veto of legislation that occurs indirectly when an executive refrains from signing the legislation and the adjournment of the legislature prevents its automatic enactment (as upon expiration of ten days)."