Political Dictionary p.8 and p.60
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| AUTOCRACY | A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power.
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| OLIGARCHY | A government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite.
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| UNITARY GOVERNMENT | Centralized government.
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| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT | Powers of government divided between a central government and several local governments.
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| DIVISION OF POWERS | A division that cant be changed by either local or national level acting alone.
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| CONFEDERATION | Alliance of independent states.
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| PRESIDENTAL GOVERNMENT | Executive and legislative branches are seperate.
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| PARLIAMENTRY GOVERNMENT | The executive is made up of prime minister and officials cabinet. The Parliamentary Relationship is elected from and part of the legislature.
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| LIMITED GOVERNMENT | A concept that was deeply rooted in English belief and practice by the time the first English ships reached the Americas.
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| REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT | A idea that government should serve the will of the people that had also been developing in England for centuries.
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| MAGNA CARTA | The great charter.
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| PETITION OF RIGHTS | Limited the king's power in several ways.
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| ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS | Prohibited a standing army in peacetime.
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| CHARTER | A written grant of authority from the king.
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| BICAMERAL | Two house legislature.
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| PROPRIETARY | Three colonies in 1775 that consisted of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Deleware.
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| UNICAMERAL | One housebody
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| POPULAR SOVERIGNITY | Government can exist only with consent of the governed.
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| ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION | Established a firm league of friendship.
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| RATIFACTION | Formal approval.
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| VIRGINA PLAN | Government with 3 seperate branches.
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| NEW JERSEY PLAN | Retained unicameral Congress of the Confederation.
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| CONNECTICUT COMPROMISE | Congress should be composed of 2 houses.
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| 3/5 THS COMPROMISE | Three fifths of all other persons should be counted.
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| COMMERSE& SLAVE TRADE | Congress is forbidden to tax export goods from any state.
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| FEDERALISTS | For ratifaction.
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| ANTIFEDERALISTS | Agaisnt ratifaction.
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| QUORUM | Majority.
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