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governmente
us government study stacks
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the checks and balances? | A government system created to prevent one branch of government from becoming too powerful. |
| What are implied powers? | Powers that aren't written but can be assumed. |
| What are concurrent powers? | powers that the state and national government share. |
| What are reserved powers? | power that is saved for the states |
| What are expressed powers? | specifically granted from constitution. |
| What are denied powers? | power that was denied to the government. |
| What are exclusive powers? | power that is saved for the National Government. |
| What is the supremacy clause? | A clause that states that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. |
| What is the difference between a civil and criminal case? | A criminal case is a broken law specified to the government and a civil case is broken between two people. |
| What does the 14th amendment do? | It gives people citizenship to the US |
| What is federalism? | is a political concept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant with a governing representative head. |
| What is a unitary government? | A system of government in which one central government holds most of the political power. |
| What is democracy? | A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. |
| What is republic? | A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch |
| What is a rider? | An addition or amendment to a document |
| What is a veto? | A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body |
| What is an amendment? | An article added to the US Constitution |
| What is a bicameral? | Having two branches or chambers |
| Who is a president pro tempore? | The Constitution provides for a president pro tempore to preside over the Senate in the absence of the vice president. |
| Who is a speaker of the house? | the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives |
| What does it mean to impeach? | Charge with treason or another crime against the state. |
| What does it mean to appeal? | An application to a higher court for a decision to be reversed. |
| What is jursidiction? | The official power to make legal decisions and judgments. |
| What is a subpoena? | A writ ordering a person to attend a court. |
| What is an indictment? | A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime. |
| What does a grand jury do? | A grand jury deliberates whether or not a case, usually involving a crime above the misdemeanor level, has enough merit to warrant a trial. |
| What is a quorum? | The minimum number of members of an assembly or society that must be present at any of its meetings to make the proceedings of that meeting valid. |
| What is the establishment clause? | The clause in the First Amendment of the US Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion by Congress. |
| What is due process? | Fair treatment through the normal judicial system. |
| What is a filibuster? | An action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures. |
| What is lobbying? | Seeking to influence on an issue |
| What is the ex post facto law? | a law that takes effect before the legislative process has been completed. |
| What is the bill of attainder? | a legislative act finding a person guilty of treason or felony without a trial. |
| What is gerrymandering? | Manipulate the boundaries of so as to favor one party or class. |
| What is a referendum? | A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision. |
| What is the home rule? | The government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens. |
| What is incumbent? | refers to a sitting member of Congress running for re-election. |
| What is socialism? | A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. |
| What is capitalism? | An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. |
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