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U.S. Government
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Politics? | * Deliberate ordering of collective affairs. * Decision-making for groups. 1. 1. Deliberate, intentional, decisions, debate, alternative. 2. Ordering, structuring, regulating 3. Groups of all kinds |
| What is Government? | People and Groups with authority to make binding laws for a people and/or territory |
| What is Anarchism? | a doctrine urging the abolition of government or governmental restraint as the indispensable condition for full social and political liberty. |
| What are the six types of government in Aristotle's Classification? | 1. Monarchy (One) 2. Aristocracy (Few) 3. Polity (Many) 4. Tyranny 5. Oligarchy 6. Democracy |
| How does democracy fit into that classification? | A Rule by the Many. |
| What is the meaning and origin (where, when) of democracy? | * A system of government in which the people rule. * Ancient Greece, Athens, about 500 B.C. Demos--People Kratos-Rule or Authority |
| What is the meaning and origin (where, when) of republic? | * Origin: Ancient Rome 500 B.C. * Res: Thing or Welfare; Publica: Public * a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizensentitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them. |
| The Government of what country divided power between a king, lords, and commoners seeming to fit Aristotle's idea about mixed government? | English Constitutional Monarch |
| Distinguish direct from representative democracy. | * Direct-- public business is decided by all citizens meeting in small assemblies. * Representative-- people rule through elected representatives |
| What are the arguments for and against a representative democracy? | 1. Popular Sovereignty 2. Political Liberty 3. Political Equality |
| What is majority tyranny? | suppression of the rights and liberties of minority by the majority. |
| What is popular Sovereignty? | The Basic Principle of democracy that the people are the ultimate source of government authority and of the policies that government leaders make. |
| What is political equality? | The Principle that says that each person carries equal weight in the conduct of the public business. |
| What is meant by political liberty? | Citizens protected from government interference |
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