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governmenttest2
Government Test Chapter 3 and 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Popular government | a system in which people participate in |
| Dictatorship | the government acts without the people's consent or imput |
| direct democracy | government in which people directly affect a government's policies and actions. |
| indirect democracy | the people elect their peers to operate the government on their behalf. |
| republic | state in which the supreme power rests in the people and their elected representatives or officers |
| totalerism | total control of all the people like the soviet union |
| autocracy | rule by one person with supreme authority |
| oligarchy | elite group of rules |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| unitary government | power resides in the central government, recieves all of its power from the people |
| federalism | divides a nation's power among national, regional, and local governments. |
| confederate government | one in which the regional governments retain supremacy and delegate few tasks to the national government |
| presidential system | the people directly elect the president. |
| parliament system | legislative and executive branches are inseparably linked |
| legislative branch | makes nations laws |
| executive branch | enforces nations laws |
| judicial branch | interprets nations laws |
| congress | legislative branch diveded into two houses |
| House of Representatives | lower house |
| senate | higher house |
| supreme court | highest court in the land |
| bicameral | legislature has two separate houses |
| unicameral | made up of one house |
| governor | chief officer of the executive branch |
| townships | different divisions of a county |
| special districts | provide specific governmental functions on a local level. |
| municipality | urban local systems of government |
| incorporation | For a government to legally exist, the state must establish it as a legal body |
| charter | gives the city its name and serves as its constitution. |
| CHAPTER 5 | CHAPTER 5 |
| Local government | organized government that provides order and leadership in localized communities such as countries , municipalities, towns, and cities. |
| Legislative government | government by elected, representative assembly |
| Limited government | A principle that limits government to only those powers granted by law. |
| House of Burgesses 1619 | First representative assembly in the new world |
| Stamp Act 1765 | parliament passed a series of taxes and trade restrictions on the colonies that produced more resentment than revenue in America |
| Petition of Rights | a document guaranteeing basic civil liberties to all British subjects. |
| Boycott | An act of protest in which businesses is withheld or refused. |
| First Continental Congress 1774 | gathered in Philadelphia in September with representatives form every colony expect georgia |
| Second Continental congress 1775-89 | shots fired on Lexington, the call for complete independence was inevitable |
| Declaration of independence | left to a committee of five appointed by congress |
| Thomas Jefferson | thirty-three year old, wrote up draft of the Declaration and sent it to Congress on June 28, 1776 |
| John Hancock | signed the Declaration first in bold signature so "King George could read it without his specticles |
| Age of Enlightenment | when there was an outgrowth in the church and he church gained followers of God. |
| Desism | a religious outgrowth of the enlightenment, regarded God as a Heavenly Clock maker who had started the world in motion. |
| Articles of Confederation | Second Continental Congress set about to establish a central government based on the consent of the newly formed state government |
| 1777 | Articles of confederation were sent to thirteen states for approval. |
| ratification | required the unanimous consent of the states and was therefore difficult to complete. |
| 1781 | Maryland held out until this year |
| 1785 | Virginia and Maryland came to negotiate a settlement over the potomac |
| Mount Vernon | George Washington's home |
| 1786 | Virginia called the states to send Representatives to Annapolis in September to "recommend a federal plan for regulating commerce" |
| Annapolis convention | poorly attended, only five states showed up |
| 1787 Constitutional Convention | delegates lay four months of difficult debates and tough questions, chose a president |
| George Washington | First President of the United States of America |
| James Madison | Father of the constitution |
| Virginia plan | basis for the Constitution |
| New Jersey Plan | Small state plan, advocated a unicameral Congress |
| Connecticut (Great) Compromise | proposed making representation in the lower house based on state population. |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | Slaves would count as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation in the house. |
| September 17, 1787 | Delegates gathered to sign the official engrossed copy of the Constitution. |
| Federalist | advocates of the Constitution |
| Anti-Federalist | Opposed the new plan of government |
| The Federalist Papers | answered the objection of the anti-federalist by carefully explaining and forcefully defending constitutional provision of power and predicting dire consequences if the Constitution were rejected. |
| 1789 | Worlds first Constitutional democracy was instituted |
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