AP US Government Ch. 1 & 2 Wilson - Kinnick
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| show | The question of who governs helps throughout this course, as it leads you to question government and all of its functions.
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| To What Ends? | show 🗑
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| Authority | show 🗑
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| show | what makes a law or constituion a source of right
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| What is Democracy? | show 🗑
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| show | This type of democracy derived from the Aristotelian "rule of many", where citizens would participate in formulating programs, such as town meetings.
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| Representative Democracy | show 🗑
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| show | the Founders were Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.
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| show | It was based off of ideas of Englightenment thinkers, such as the ideas of natural rights; life, liberty, and property; to be able to question the government as well as have the government limited with power.
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| List the grievances against Great Britain. | show 🗑
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| What are some key concepts of the Framers of the Constitution? | show 🗑
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| show | The Great Comrpomise was a combination of two plans discussed in the process of creating representation in Congress. By combining ideas from both the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan, the people of the Constitutional Convention came to consensus.
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| show | The Federalists, led by Hamilton, Jay, and Madison. They supported the ratification of the Consitution, and supported their cause by writing a series of papers called "The federalist Paper".
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| What other party emerged, in dispute with another party at the birth of our government? | show 🗑
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| show | It defines the objective of the document in general; for a more perfect union, to establish justice and to ensure domestic peace, provide for the common defense of its people, and promote general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty, for all.
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| show | Article I defines the legistlative powers Congress holds, and how the power and responsibility is split between the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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| show | Article II defines the powers of the President, and how he is entitled to written powers, as well as powers given to any leader of a nation that isn't written.
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| show | Article III defines the nature of the judicial branch, especially the Supreme Court, and how cases get to them.
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| Describe the House of Representatives by structure, terms, etc. | show 🗑
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| Describe the Senate by structure, terms, etc. | show 🗑
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| show | Enumerated Powers are powers which are specifically written out, given to Congress; such as the power to tax, borrow money, regulate commerce between states and countries, and to coin money. They differ from implied powers because they are written out.
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| Define "Implied Powers" and explain how they differ from "Enumerated Powers". | show 🗑
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| show | The president must be 35 yeares old, natural born U.S. citizen, and reside in the U.S. for at least 14 years. He has a 4 year term, limited to 2 terms.
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| Define the powers of the President. | show 🗑
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| What is Political Participation? | show 🗑
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| show | Since it is a set of groups and activities that are linked together in government, politics, and public policy, things like political parties, elections, and interest groups, and the media are key things that build up to it.
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| show | Political parties are groups of people who share the same ideas about government, and seek to change the government in the way the want it. So by campaigning and running for a party leader position, they hope to change government policy to better our gov.
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| show | He was a democratic theorist who believed in five things essential for a democratic process.
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| What were the five things Robert Dahl believed in? | show 🗑
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| show | A theory of an American democracy where groups compete with one another for control of public policy, with no one specific group dominating. Various attempts of bargaining and compromising would be associated with this type of democracy.
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| show | This theoretic American democracy basically divides society up by ecomnomic status, the upper-class elites would have most power, since they would contribute more to the economy. Money is power, is basically what they would go off by.
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| List some challenges to having a democratic society | show 🗑
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| show | The Gross Domestic Product is the value of all goods and services produced by the United States annually. One out of every three dollars the local, national, and state governments collectively spend.
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| What does our nation spend it's money on? | show 🗑
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| show | Individualism is a dominant theme, as everybody always wants something more or different, and public policy can't always satisfy those needs, but continually try and satisfy them anyway they can.
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