civics exam
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| Diversity | differences
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| Demography | the study of the size, growth, and distribution of human populations
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| Cencus | a populations survey taken every ten years
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| Exclusion laws | laws prohibiting further immigration from China or Japan
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| Discrimination | the unfair treatment of a group of people
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| Naturalized | gone through the process of becoming a citizen
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| Rule of law | concept of government of laws
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| Common law | will being of all members of society
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| Alien | citizen of one country living in a another country
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| Canidate | person running for office
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| Citizen | a person with certain rights and duties under a government
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| Jury of Peers | decides whether the accused is innocent of guilty
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| Reprasentatives | people chosen to act for fellow citizens in government
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| Witnesses | people with information that may determine guilt of innocence of a person on trial
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| Natural rights | people are born with these and government cant take them away
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| Compact | a written agreement to make and obey laws in the form of government
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| Tyranny | the abuse of power
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| Charter | a document giving permission to create a government
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| Republic | a group of people chosen to make laws
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| Ratification | approval
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| Direct Democracy | the citizens elect representatives to make laws in this form of government
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| Separation of Powers | the division of government among legislative, executive, and judicial branches
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| Impeach | accuse
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| Concurrent Powers | powers shared by the federal and state government
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| Anti- Federalists | opponents of the Constitution
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| Great Comprimise | plan calling for two-house legislature in which the house would have representatives based on state population and the Senate would have two representatives for each state
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| Checks and Balances | system that gives each branch of government ways to limit the powers of the other two
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| Amendments | changes
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| Bicameral | having two houses
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| Federalists | supporters of the consitution
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| Reserved powers | powers that the Constitution neither gives to congress nor denies to the states
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| Three Fifths Compromise | counted each slave as 3/5 of a person when calculating a states population
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| Federalism | the division of power between the states and the federal government
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| Double Jeropardy | people cannot be tried twice for the same crime
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| Due Process of Law | accused persons get fair treatment by the government
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| Eminent Domain | government can take private property for a public project
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| Bill or Rights | the ten amendments protecting citizens' rights
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| Sufferage | the right to vote
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| Segregation | separation of blacks and whites in public places
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| Poll Tax | fee for voting in an election
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| Affirmative action | constitutional principle that people must be treated fairly
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| Equal Protection | to counteract the effects of past discrimination
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| Interest Groups | usually, people with similar goals
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| Floor Leaders | chief officers from each party in congress(congress)
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| Congressional districts | part of a state a house member represents
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| Lobbyists | people who represent interest groups and talk to congress
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| Pocket veto | a way in which the President can veto a bill by pocketing, or keeping, and not signing the bill for ten days, during which Congress ends in session
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| Cloture | agreement to end debate on a bill in the senate
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| President Pro Tempore | person who presides over the Senate in Vice President's place
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| Impeach | when the house of representatives accuses an official of serious wrongdoing
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| Bill of Attainder | law that convicts a person of a crime without a trial
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| Filibuster | when a member of the Senate uses a long speech to prevent vote on a bill
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| Constituents | the people that a member of congress represents
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