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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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