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Unit 1 Vocab

Participation In Government

Question	Answer
A presidential order that pardons a person or group of people who have committed an offense against the government	Amnesty
Two house legislature Congress = Senate +House of Representatives NYS = Senate + Assembly	Bicameral Legislature
The expected qualities that a person should have as a member of a community	Citizenship
Powers that both the national (federal) government and states have. Example: Taxes, borrowing of money	Concurrent Powers
A plan that provides the rules for government	Constitution
Powers the Constitution grants or delegates to national (federal) government. Example: Coining money, declaring war, regulating interstate commerce	Delegated Powers
Government in which the people rule	Democracy
A system of government in which authority is divided between national and state governments	Federalism
A institution through which leaders exercise power to make and enforce laws affecting the people under its control	Government
Powers the government requires to carry out its expressed Constitutional power. Flexibility	Implied Powers
System in which the powers of government is limited, not absolute	Limited Government
A formal order given by a higher authority. An authorization to act given to a representative	Mandate
The legal process by which a person is granted citizenship	Naturalization
A person fleeing a country to escape persecution or danger	Refugee
A system of government in which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government. Example: United States	Representative Government
Powers that belong strictly to the states. Example: Professional License, Education	Reserved Powers
Money collected from taxes or sources/sales/income taxes/property taxes	Revenue
Supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries	Sovereignty
A political community that occupies a definite territory, has an organized government	State
A special document required by certain countries issued by the government of the country that a person wishes to enter	Visa
A person who lives in a country where he or she is not a citizen	Alien
The loss of citizenship through fraud or deception during the actualization process	Denaturalization
The legal process in which aliens are legally required to leave the United States	Deportation
The process of giving up one's citizenship by leaving to live in a foreign country	Expatrition
The Latin phrase: means "law of blood" the principle that grants citizenship on the basis of the citizenship of one's parents	Jus Sanguinis
The Latin phrase: meaning "law of the soil" the principle that grants citizenship to nearly all people born in the country	Jus Soli

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