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Texas Government
Chapters 1 & 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An organization extending to the whole society that can legitimately use force; a public institution with the authority to allocate values in society | Government |
| government action designed to meet a public need or goal as determined by a legislative body or other authorized officials | Public Policy |
| attitudes, habits, and general behavior patterns that develop over time and affect the political life of a state or region | Political culture |
| to preserve order; formulate, adopt, and implement a public policy | Purpose of government |
| Society is an organism and government must do what is best to save the organism at the expense of smaller parts of the organism | Organicism |
| singular entities in society who are unique and need to be protected and encouraged | Individualism |
| inheritly good | True nature of human beings |
| an agreement to obey laws for protection | Social Contract |
| freedom, order, equality | Three basic values of government |
| What political cultures have most influenced Texas according to political scientist Daniel Elezer | Individualistic |
| source of Texans rugged individualistic image | Frontier experience |
| Four geogrpahic regions of Texas | gulf coastal plains, interior lowlands, great plains, basin and range province |
| Why is Texas populuation growing | domestic and international immigration, state economy, and air conditioning |
| what region has the largest percentage of African-Americans | East Texas and urban areas; Harris County |
| what percentage of Texans are hispanic? | 32% |
| Why did the cotton industry move from East to West? | irrigation and mechanical farming equipment |
| what caused high tech to develop? | oil |
| Partner plants on the Mexican side of the border that use cheap labor to assemble goods then export to the U.S. | maquiladoras |
| basic and neccessary powers | inherent powers |
| powers that belong to the government because they are in the constitution | enumerated powers |
| excercised by different levels of government | concurrent powers |
| protection against invasion and domestic violence, territorial integrity, republican form of government, representation by 2 senators and at least one representative in the U.S. congress, and equitable participation in the constitutional amendment process | constitutional guarantees to the states |
| First constitution to govern Texas territory | The Coahuila y Tejas 1828 |
| What event prompted a rewriting og the state constitution on 1875 | E.J. Davis' office |
| Which areas of the country was favored by the 1876 constitution? | rural |
| What is in Article I of the constitution? | Bill of Rights |
| assignment of lawmaking, lawenforcing, and law-interpreting functions to seperate branches of government | seperation of powers |
| Where is the seperation of powers found? | Articles 2-5 |
| Patrons of the husbandry; frmaers of constituion | Texas GRange |
| equality under law cannot be denied because of sex, race, color, creed, or national origin | Equal legal rights amendment (ELRA) |
| right to vote | suffrage |
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