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AP Gov unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Representative Democracy | people choose others to represent them |
| Politics | igniting and solving issues |
| participatory or direct democracy | people represent themselves |
| Issue | real or perceived problem |
| Creedal Passion view | elites are motivated less by economic self-interest than they are by the desire to bring democratic institutions |
| Power elite view | a single elite, not a multiplicity of competing groups, decides the life-and-death issues for the nation |
| Bureaucratic view | beuracrats run everything |
| Class view | the wealthy run everything |
| Pluralist view | all other views are somewhat correct, power held by differnt groups |
| coorperative federalism | a flexible relationship between the federal and state governments in which both work together on a variety of issues and programs |
| dual federalism | power is divided between the federal and state governments in clearly defined terms, with state governments exercising those powers accorded to them without interference from the federal government |
| labortaties of deomcracy | test things in the states first |
| federalism | sharing power with a large government |
| enumerated powers | number and listed, given to federal gov |
| concurrent powers | shared |
| reserved powers | not mentioned in constitition, given to states |
| soverigty | people have the final say |
| habeaus corpus | a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention, article 1 |
| ex post facto law | a law that imposes criminal liability or increases criminal punishment retroactively. |
| bill of attainer | act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of people, guilty of some crime, and punishing them, often without a trial. |
| federalist | supports big gov and constitition |
| anti federalist | against big gov and constitution |
| initaitive | petition signed by a certain number of registered voters can force a government to choose either to enact a law or hold a public vote in the legislature |
| referendum | a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue. |
| recall | petition to remove someone in office |
| logrolling | politicians trade support for one issue or piece of legislation in exchange for another politician's support, |
| rollback | forcing a change in the major policies of a state, usually by replacing its ruling regime |
| block grants | grant-in-aid of a specified amount from a larger government to a smaller regional government body |
| conditions of aid | strings attatched to money |
| mandates | states have to do |
| catagorical grants | money for broad purposes |
| necessary and proper/elastic clause | article 1, section 8 |
| commerce clause | article 1, section 8 |
| tenth amendment | powers not in consition are given to states and people |
| lopez v us | gun in school zone, congress can't claim commerce clause for gun laws in schools |
| mculloch v maryland | tax federal bank, sides with federal gov, expands commerce + necessary and proper clause |
| federalist 10 | factions, pluralism |
| brutus 1 | antifederlist, smaller local gov |
| article 1 | legislative |
| article 2 | exective |
| article 3 | judicial |
| article 5 | amending |
| amendments | 10 = bill of rights |
| articles of confederation | first constituion, loose agreement, week federal gov |
| decloration of independence | jefferson, lists grievances |
| powers under AOC | declare war, appoint military officers, sign treaties, make alliances, appoint foreign ambassadors, and manage relations with Indians |
| formally amend constitution | proposed by 2/3 of congress or national convnetions, ratified by 3/4 of state legisaltures or convnetions |
| informally amend constitution | supreme court or change interpratiation through actions |
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