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Civics Finals
practicing for the Civics finals
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Glittering Generality Endorsing | "Change you can believe in" |
| Symbols/ Transfer Endorsing | Patriotic music and flags in the background |
| Just Plain Folks Endorsing | Candidate wants you to believe they are like you. |
| Bandwagon Endorsing | Candidates polls show them in the lead |
| Card Stacking Endorsing | One sided attacks towards an opponent. |
| Name Calling Endorsing. | Mudslinging. |
| Recall. | Allows voters to remove an elected official from office. |
| How many electorial votes does a candidate need to win?. | 270 out of 538 . |
| Adversarial System of Justice. | Ex. Cross examining a witness. |
| Administrative Law. | Ex. The FCC fines CBS bc of Janet Jackson. |
| Felony. | usually more time... prison |
| Misdemeanor | less than a year of prison, probation community service or fines |
| White Collar Crimes | Committed by professionals.. insider trading |
| Settle out of Court | Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration |
| Complaint | Answer |
| Discovery | trial |
| Jeuvenile justice system | rehabilite not punish |
| Arraignment. | accused enters a plea and a trial date is set at the Arraignment. |
| Superior Court has jurisdiction over.. | felonies |
| Districts Court has jurisdiction over.. | misdemeanors |
| Supreme Court has jurisdiction over.. | foreign ambassadors and presidential elections |
| Remand | when you send a case back |
| Concurrent jurisdiction | shared |
| blue collar pay | wage |
| white collar | salary |
| capital good | machine used in business.. could also be money |
| Fixed Cost | Rent |
| Variable Cost | Gas money |
| PPI | producer price index |
| Returns on Investments (Law of Diminishing Returns) | More of an investment does not always equal a higher return |
| Scarcity | biggest problem an economy could face |
| Barter System | Trade (deer skin for fish) |
| Command Economy | Communist government Government controls the government |
| Market Economy | led by an invisible hand controlled by the producers and consumers |
| Mixed Market Economy | government regulation plus free enterprise Ex. America |
| Reagonomics | Cut taxes to the upper class so they can create more jobs and have more money to spend |
| Mercantilism | the belief that encouraged colonization for new natural resources and a new market |
| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement |
| Charter | permission from King to set up a colony |
| Corporate Colony | Joint-stock company |
| Proprietary Colony | individual |
| Royal Colony | control of King or royal governor |
| Enlightenment | new ideas about peoples rights and government |
| Salutary Neglect | long period of time where colonists learned to govern themselves |
| Navigation Acts | series of laws passed to restrict colonial trade to benefit England |
| French and Indian War | higher taxes to pay for that war and a new Line that bans westward expansion |
| Stamp Act | increased cost of paper goods and documents |
| Articles of Confederation failed because | they gave too much power to the states and not the government |
| 1st Amendment | Religion, Assembly, Petition, Press, Speech |
| 2nd Amendment | Bear Arms |
| 3rd Amendment | No quartering troops during times of peace |
| 4th Amendment | No unreasonable searches or seizures |
| 5th Amendment | Rights of the Accused |
| 6th Amendment | Rights at a Criminal Trial |
| 7th Amendment | Rights in Civil Cases |
| 8th Amendment | No cruel or unusual punishment |
| 9th Amendment | other rights for the people |
| 10th Amendment | other rights for the states |
| 11th Amendment | limits lawsuits (states) |
| 12th Amendment | way of electing President/VP |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Equal Protection |
| 15th Amendment | black male suffrage (voting) |
| 16th Amendment | Income taxes |
| 17th Amendment | election of senators |
| 18th/21st Amendment | prohibition of alcohol and overturned |
| 19th Amendment | womens suffrage |
| 20th Amendment | lame duck session |
| 22nd Amendment | two presidential terms |
| 23rd Amendment | DC votes |
| 24th Amendment | poll taxes |
| 25th Amendment | president succession |
| 26th Amendment | voting age of 18 |
| 27th Amendment | no congressional pay raises during their session |
| proposal of 2/3 both houses of Congress or cenventions called by 2/3 state legislatures | ratification of 3/4 state legislatures or 3/4 ratifying conventions in the states |
| Legislative | Make Laws |
| Executive | Enforce Laws |
| Judicial | Interpret Laws |
| Senate | filibuster |
| House | no filibuster |
| Article 3 only created the | Supreme Court |
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