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Chapter 1&2-US gov
Vocab from Chapt 1 and 2 in We The People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Authoritarian Government | Openly represses their political opponent as a means of staying in power (the degree of repression varies) |
| Authority | When one party exercises power over another, the party with control has authority over the other |
| Autocracy | When a single individual controls everyone such as a king, queen, or dictator |
| Bureaucratic rule | the control of public policy by career bureaucrats a kind of bureaucratic elitism |
| Capitalism | The government should interfere with the economy as little as possible |
| Communism | the government owns most or all major industries and also takes responsibility for overall management of the economy |
| Constitutionalism | There are limits on the rightful power of government over its citizens |
| Democracy | A political system in which regular elections exist in which two or more competing groups or individuals contend for control of the government |
| Elitism | the control of public policy across a variety of policy domains by a small group of individuals |
| Equality | the notion that all individuals are equal in their moral worth and thereby entitled to equal treatment under the law |
| Individualism | Commitment to personal initiative and self |
| Liberty | the principle that individuals should be free to act and think as they choose |
| Majoritarianism | the control of public policy by the majority of the adult population |
| Oligarchy | system in which a small group controls the rest, such as top ranking military officers or a few wealthy families |
| Pluralism | the competition between various groups for influence over public policy relevant to their interests |
| Political culture | Politically relevant ideas, social practices and characteristics of a society |
| Political system | a constitutional framework that defines how power is to be obtained and exercised. |
| Politics | 1) the authoritative allocation of values 2) the process through which society settles its conflicts and decides the policies by which it will be governed |
| Power | the ability of persons, interests, or institutions to control public policy |
| Public policy | a decision by the government to pursue a particular course of action |
| Self-government | 1) a government based on people and subject to their control |
| Social Contract | an agreement between the people and the government. Usually one where the people surrender some of their freedom for protection |
| Socialism | system where government has a large ownership in means of production, economic decisions, and economic security of the individual |
| Totalitarian government | the party in control asserts complete dominance over individuals and the institutions of society |
| Government | The structure and processes through which rules or policies are authoritatively determined for society as a whole |
| State | A human community which successfully claims within a territory the legitimate use of physical force |
| Political Socialization | the training of people in the ways thinking, feeling and behaving which are characteristic of political culture |
| Tragedy of the commons | Everyone goes after their own satisfaction but in the end everyone suffers |
| Prisoner Dilemma- Game Theory | The idea that our actions are influenced by the other person's action |
| Nash Equilibrium | sets of strategies for players in a uncooperative game such that no single one of them would be better off switching strategies unless others did |
| Pareto Optimal Choice | An allocation of goods to individuals if no other allocation of the same goods would be preferred by every individual |
| Negative Liberty | Freedom as something an individual has as a right but which is constantly under threat from outside forces, especially the state |
| Positive Liberty | Freedom to do or achieve something. It requires both freedom to do and the opportunity, money, political power, and family support |
| Legalistic Justice | Due process view; equal treatment for all in judicial and quasi-judicial government functions |
| Utilitarian Justice | the greatest good for the greatest number |
| Just desserts Justice | merit (accomplishments), effort(amount of work) |
| Federalism | A governmental decision in which authority is divided between 2 sovereign levels of government (national and regional) |
| Commerce Clause | "To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among several states and with Indian tribes."(Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) |
| Anti-Federalists | Argued that the national government would be too powerful and would threaten self-government in the separate states and the liberty of the people. |
| Bill of Rights | A precise expression of the concept of limited government; a list of rights that the government can not deny from an individual |
| Checks and balances | A system in which no institution can act decisively without the support or acquiescence of the other institutions. |
| Constitution | the fundamental law that defines how a government will legitimately operate |
| Constitutional democracy | the concept that power gained through majority influence (election) be exercised in accordance with law and with due respect for individual rights |
| Delegates | Officeholders who are obligated to respond directly to the expressed opinions of the people they represent |
| Democracy (Framer's version) | A government in which the power of the majority is unlimited whether exercised directly or through a representative body. |
| Denials of power | limited government by prohibiting certain practices that European rulers had routinely used to intimidate political opponents |
| Electoral College | Electors that represented each state. Number of electors in the Electoral College differed according to the number of members in Congress |
| Electoral Votes | The number of votes each state had when electing the president |
| Federalists | Argued that the government of the Constitution would correct the defects of the Articles; it would have the power necessary to forge a secure and prosperous union |
| Grants of power | limited government by listing seventeen actions/powers that government could not regulate |
| Great Compromise | A compromise that there will be two chambers in Congress: the House of Representatives would give certain number of votes according to the size of the state population and the Senate would give each state a single vote each. |
| Inalienable(natural) rights | People's right to life, liberty and property and rebel against any ruler that denies these rights. |
| Judicial review | the power of the judiciary to decide whether a government official or institution has acted within the limits of the Constitution and, if not, to declare its action null and void. |
| Limited Government | a government that is subject to strict limits on its lawful uses of power |
| New Jersey (small-state) Plan | National government would have some power and Congress will have a single chamber with each state getting one vote each. |
| North-South Compromise | Congress would have the authority to tax inputs but would be prohibited from taxing exports; couldn't end slave-trade; each slave would be counted as 3/4 a person when counting population |
| Primary Election | Gave rank-and-file voters the power to select party nominees |
| Representative Government | a system of government in which political power rests with the people through their ability to choose representatives in free and fair election |
| Republic (Framers' version) | government that is based on majority rule but that protects the minority through a guarantee of individual rights and other checks on majority power. |
| Separated Institutions Sharing Power | The principle that powers should be divided among separated branches, each of which also shares in the power of the others so that no one branch can exercise power decisively without the support of acquiescence of the others. |
| Separation Powers | System in which government would be controlled by the division of powers among several institutions |
| trustees | representatives obliged to serve the interests of those who elect elect them, but the nature of this interest is for the representatives, not the voters, to decide |
| tyranny of the majority | the people acting as an irrational mob that tramples on the rights of the minority |
| Virginia (large-state) Plan | Congress will have two chambers that would have supreme authority in all areas of government. The number of votes per state would be decided by the number of size of the population of the state. |
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