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PLS 1
Test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Globalization | The increasing interdependence of citizens and nations across the world. |
| Government | The legitimate use of force to control human behavior within specified geographical boundaries. |
| Order | When it refers to social order it deals with established patterns of authority in society and to traditional modes of behavior. |
| Concept that Identify Values pursued by government. | Freedom, Order, Equality |
| Equality of opportunity. | Each person has the same chance to succeed in life. |
| Rights | The idea that every citizen is entitled to certain benefits of government and that the government should guarantee adequate housing, employment, medical care, and income. |
| Freedom from | Suggests immunity from something undesirable such as exploitation. |
| Political Equality | One vote per person, with all votes counted equally. |
| Libertarianism | Political ideology that is opposed to all government action except as necessary to protect life and property. |
| Political ideology | A consistent set of values and beliefs about the proper purpose and scope of government |
| Socialism | A form of rule in which the central government plays a strong role in regulating industry and directing the economy. |
| Democratic socialism | Socialist form of government that guarantees civil liberties. |
| liberals | Favor generous government support for education, wildlife protection, other social programs. |
| procedural democratic theory | A view of democracy as being embodied in a decision-making process that involves universal participation, political equality, majority rule, and responsiveness. |
| representative democracy | System of government where citizens elect public officials to govern on their behalf. |
| substantive democratic theory | The view that democracy is embodied in the substance of government policies rather than in the policymaking procedure. |
| minority rights | The idea that all citizen are entitled to certain rights that cannot be denied by the majority. |
| pluralist model of democracy | Not much knowledge required from citizens in general; seeks to limit majority action, some say to the point where minorities rule. |
| Oligarchy | A system of government in which power is concentrated in the hands of a few people |
| Social contract theory | States that the people agree to establish rulers for certain purposes and have the right to resist of remove rulers who violate those purposes. |
| confederation | a loose association of independent states that agree to cooperation on specified matters. |
| legislative branch | Making laws |
| executive branch | Enforcing laws. |
| judicial branch | Interpreting laws |
| New Jersey Plan | Equal representation of all states in the legislature. |
| judicial review | the power to declare government acts invalid because they violate the Constitution |
| national sovereignty | Each national government has the right to govern its peoples as it wishes, without interference from other nations |
| public goods | services that benefit all citizens but are not likely to be produced by the voluntary acts of individuals |
| equality of outcome | society must see to it that people are equal. Governments must design policies to redistribute weath and status to ensure equaltiy. |
| social equality | equality in wealth, educations and status |
| freedom of | an absence of constraints on behavior |
| police power | governments authority to safeguard residents safety, health, welfare, and morals |
| dilemmas of government | Freedom vs. Order and Freedom vs. Equality |
| totalitarianism | belief that government should have unlimited power to control all sectors of society |
| capitalism | system of government that favors free enterprise |
| conservatives | want smaller government budgets and fewer government programs |
| anarchism | opposes all government, in any form and values freedom above all else. |
| democracy | a system of government in which, in theory, the people rule, either directly or indirectly |
| responsiveness | |
| participatory democracy | system of government where rank-and-file citizens rule themselves rather than electing representatives to govern on their behalf |
| majoritarian model | the classical theory of democracy in which government by the people is interpreted as government by the majority of the people |
| interest group | an organized group of individuals that seeks to influence public policy |
| elite theory | the ruling minority changes very little if at all |
| Declaration of Independence | the document that proclaimed the right of the colonies to separate from Great Britain |
| Republic | a government rooted in the consent of the governed, whose power is exercised by representatives who are responsible to the people. |
| Virginia Plan | Three branches... proportional respresentation in the liegislature |
| Great Compromise | House of Representatives and Senate |
| separation of powers | Assignment of law-making, law-enforcing and law-interpreting powers |
| enumerated powers | powers explicitly granted to Congress by the Constitution |
| implied powers | those powers that Congress requires in order to execute its enumerated powers |
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