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gov unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Natural rights | certain freedoms are guaranteed to all citizens. Protects the natural rights (life,liberty, and property) of citizens which are referred to as "unalienable" in the dec indp. |
| Popular Sovereignty | the power and authority of government belong to the people |
| Social contract | government existed because the people voluntarily gave up some power to the government in exchange for security |
| Participatory democracy | a type of democracy that focuses on popular soveriegnty and that governmental authority should be in the hands of indiviuals selected by the people |
| Pluralist Democracy | the idea that democracy should be incorporate that influence of various groups of indiviuals with shared beliefs, without allowing anyone group to dominate (various groups compete for power and influence, but no one group is able to establish long contr |
| Elite Democracy | the idea that government authority in a democracy tends to migrate to the hands of a small group of educated and wealthy individuals and reduce popular participation |
| Federalism | a system of government in which a constitution assigns different types of authority and responsibility to national and state governments. |
| Checks and Balances | the constitution grants specific mechanisms to each branch of government for limiting the actions of the other branches. The idea behind _is that a written constitution gives each branch of government the authority to block actions by the other branches |
| Seperations of powers | the constitution implements the concept of ____ by granting each branch specific areas of authority(power). Based from Baron de Montesquieu |
| Limited government | the theory that the power of the government and political leaders would be restricted in order to protect natural rights was built into the Constitution by specifically listing the powers of government , the powers denied to the government |
| Majority rule and minority rights | The concept adresses the possibility of tyranny by the majority -a situation in which a majority may apress the minority. The constitution protects minority rights from being violated even when such violation is broadly supported by voters. |
| Faction | a group of people who come together because they all share a common interest |
| what is the source of factions | factions started to be created because of inequality of land and wealth |
| how are factions controlled | a large republic system |
| why were the anti-federalists reluctant to sign the new constitution | they didn't want the federal government to have too much power over them. The anti-federalists did not believe a larger government would be affective |
| great conneticut compromise | balances the large and small states' needs a fundamental issue in drafting the constitution was resolving the questions of how states should be represented in congress. Regardless of size, this incorporates both positions |
| Electoral college | the debate over the method for selecting the executive required a compromise among many competing interests and ideas, procedure for choosing electors would be left to the states |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | due to many states having a significant numer of slaves, the great compromise required the farmers to address the question of whether slaves would be counted as part of a states population in determining representation in the house. |
| Compromise on the importance of slaves | The existence of slavery was a formidable problem in negotiating a document acceptable to both free and slave states. Many citizens and leaders firmly opposed the toleration of slavery under the constitution |
| Reserved powers | the constitution required striking a balance between states' rights and a powerful national government, tension exists today regarding the appropriate role of the federal government should have regarding public education, civil rights |
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