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Boone C&E #1
C&E Goal 1 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolute monarch | a monarch that has complete and unlimited power to rule his or her people |
| Alien | a noncitizen |
| Amendment | a change in the constitution |
| Bicameral | a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses |
| Boycott | the refusal to purchase certain goods |
| Budget | a plan for making and spending money |
| Charter | a written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments |
| Checks and balances | a system in which each branch of government is able to check, or restrain, the others |
| Citizens | community member who owe loyalty to the government and in entitled to protection from it |
| Civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens |
| Colony | a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere |
| Common law | a system of law based on precedent and custom |
| Compact | an agreement , or contract, among a group of people |
| Constitution | a detailed, written for a government |
| Constitutional Convention | meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of new constitution |
| Delegate | a representative to a meeting |
| Democracy | a government in which citizens hold the power to rule |
| Dictatorship | a government controlled by one person or a small group of people |
| Double jeopardy | putting someone on trial for a crime of which he or she was previously acquitted |
| Due process of law | procedures established by law and guaranteed by the Constitution |
| Electoral College | a group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president |
| Federalism | a form of government in which power is divided between the federal or national government and the states |
| Federalists | supporters of the Constitution |
| Anti-federalists | those who opposed the ratification of the Constitution |
| Government | the ruling authority for a community |
| Immigrants | a person who moves permanently to a new country |
| Indentured servants | workers who contracted with American colonists for food and shelter in return for their labor |
| Independence | self-reliance and freedom from outside control |
| Judicial Branch | the branch of government that interprets laws |
| Legislative Branch | a group of people that makes laws |
| Executive Branch | the branch of government that carries out laws |
| Majority rule | political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all people |
| Mercantilism | the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys |
| Migration | a mass movement of people from one area to another |
| Monarch | king or queen |
| Natural rights | freedoms people possess relating to life, liberty, and property |
| Naturalization | a legal process to obtain citizenship |
| Political party | an association of voters with broad common interests who want to influence or control decision making in government by electing the party’s candidates to public office |
| Precedent | a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later , similar case |
| Public policy | the course of action the government takes in response to a particular issue or person |
| Ratify | to vote approval of |
| Religious dissenter | those who followed a religious faith other than the official religion of England |
| Repeal | to cancel a law |
| Representative democracy | governments in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
| Republic – a representative democracy where citizens choose their lawmakers | |
| Reserved powers | powers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states |
| Royal Colony | a colonial area of land controlled directly by a king or other monarch |
| Separation of powers | the split of authority among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches |
| Social contract | an agreement among people in a society with a government Suffrage |
| Terrorism | the use of violence by groups against civilians to achieve a political goal |
| Totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people’s lives |
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