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Unit 3 Term
Terms for unit 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Bill of Rights? | The collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. |
| What is federalism? | The federal system of the government. |
| What is a confederacy? | A league or alliance of confederate states. |
| What is the Articles of Confederation? | The original Constitution of the United States |
| What is a Monarchy? | A form of government in which sovereignty is actually of normally embodied in a single individual. |
| What is Unitarianism? | A religious theological movement named for its understanding of God as one person. |
| What is the Constitution? | A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed. |
| What is the Separation of Powers? | A model for the governance of both the democratic and federative states. |
| What are the checks and balances? | Counterbalancing influences by which an orginization or system is regulated. |
| What is Legislative? | Having the power to make laws. |
| What is Bicameral? | Having two branches or characters. |
| What is Judicial? | Appropriate to court or judge. |
| What is the Supreme Court? | The highest Judicial court in U.S states. |
| What is Executive? | Having the power to put plans, actions, or laws into affect. |
| What is Citizenship? | The status of a citizen with rights, and duties. |
| What are the Amendments? | A minor change in documents. |
| What is Congress? | The national legislative body of a country. |
| What is the Senate? | Any of various legislative or governing bodies, in particular. |
| What is the House of Representatives? | The lower house of the U.S congress. |
| What are the Founders? | A person who establishes an institution or settlement. |
| What are Framers? | Delegates to the Philadelphia Convention held in 1787 and those who wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights. |
| What is a Democrat? | An advocate or supporter of democracy. |
| What is a Republican? | A person advocating or supporting republican government. |
| What is an electoral college? | A body of people representing the states of the U.S, who formally cast votes of the president and vice president. |
| What is media bias? | Refers to the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media, in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. |
| Who is Obama? | The 44th president of the U.S, he was part of the democratic party, he was the first African American president. |
| Who is Biden? | The vice president of Obama. |
| Who is Romney? | An American businessman, Republican party politician, and was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts. |
| Who is Ryan? | A U.S Congressman also, Mitt Romney's vice president. |
| WHat are the state issues? | Anything provided by the state. |
| What are the national platforms? | An Irish Eurosceptic lobby group which campaigns against greater European Union integration. |
| What are the third parties? | A person or group besides the two primarily involved in a situation. |
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