American Government Ch. 1 quizlet
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| Government | show 🗑
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| Public policies | show 🗑
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| show | The power to make and frame public policies.
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| Executive power | show 🗑
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| Judicial power | show 🗑
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| Constitution | show 🗑
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| Dictatorship | show 🗑
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| Democracy | show 🗑
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| show | A body of people living in a defined territory, organized politically, power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority.
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| Sovreign | show 🗑
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| The Force Theory | show 🗑
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| The Evolution Theory | show 🗑
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| Divine Right Theory | show 🗑
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| The Social Contract Theory | show 🗑
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| show | Japanese emperoe
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| show | --England
a. Thomas Hobbes (1611-1677)
b. James Harrington (1611-1677)
c. John Locke (1632-1704)
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| show | A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power.
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| Oligarchy | show 🗑
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| show | A centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency.
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| show | A form of government in which powers are divided between a central government and several local governments.
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| show | Basic principle of federalism. Governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis.
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| show | An alliance of independent states.
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| Presidential government | show 🗑
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| Parliamentary Government | show 🗑
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| show | The process of blending and adjusting competing views and interest.
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| show | America's economic system. Based on four fundamental factors (also called capitalism) -- Private ownership, individual initiative, profit, and competition.
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| Law of Supply and Demand | show 🗑
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| Mixed Economy | show 🗑
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| show | Government is restricted in what it may do and each individual has certain rights that government cannot take away.
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| Representative Government | show 🗑
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| Magna Carta | show 🗑
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| show | Limited the King's power. Monarch was subject to the law of the land.
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| show | Designed to prevent abuse of power by English Monarch agreed on by William and Mary of England in 1689.
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| Charter | show 🗑
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| show | A legislative body compromised out of two chambers.
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| Propeietary | show 🗑
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| Unicameral | show 🗑
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| show | A joining of several groups for a common purpose.
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| show | Meeting to discuss the problems of colonial trade and the danger of attacks by the French and their Native American Allies. (Benjamin Franklin)
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| Delegates | show 🗑
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| Stamp act of 1765 | show 🗑
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| show | A refusal to buy or sell certain products or services.
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| Repealed | show 🗑
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| show | Government can exist only with the consent of the governed. AKA, "Power to the People".
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| Articles of Confederation | show 🗑
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| show | Formal approval.
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| show | The person chosen by congress to be their chair person or president. (Not of the U.S.)
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| Framers | show 🗑
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| show | The first plan for a new constitution -- this plan called for three separate branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
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| show | Presented as an alternative to the Virginia plan. Called for a unicameral legislature in which each state would be equally represented.
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| show | Congress should be composed of two houses. The Senate, the stated would be represented equally and in the house would be represented based upon its population.
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| show | All "free persons" should be counted and three fifths of all persons to be counted (slaves). AKA -- Slaves are to be counted as three fifths of a person.
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| Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise | show 🗑
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| show | One of two groups that favored ratification.
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| Anti-Federalists | show 🗑
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| show | A majority
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| show | Group that makes the formal selection of the president.
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| show | The division of power among a central government and several regional governments.
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| show | A formal agreement between 2 or more sovereign states.
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| show | To declare illegal a government action found to violate the Constitution.
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| show | Each branch of Government is subject to a number of constitutional restraints by the other branches.
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| show | A pact between the president with the head of another country.
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| show | Long established custom that presidential appointees are acceptable to the senator of the president's party.
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| show | The short introduction to the Constitution.
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| show | Government must be conducted according to constitutional principles.
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| Articles | show 🗑
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| Formal Amendment | show 🗑
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| show | Government and its officers are always subject to and never above the law.
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| Veto | show 🗑
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| show | Changes in the written words of the Constitution (change to the meaning or interpretation of the Constitution).
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| show | First 10 amendments to the Constitution.
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| show | Power of the courts to determine the constitutionality of a government action.
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| show | Advisory body to the president.
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| Separation of Powers | show 🗑
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| Federalism | show 🗑
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| show | Basic principle of federalism; the constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis (in the U.S. between the National Government and the States).
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| show | Those powers expressed, implied, or inherent, granted to the National Government by the Constitution.
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| Expressed powers | show 🗑
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| Implied powers | show 🗑
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| Inherent powers | show 🗑
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| show | Those powers that the Constitution does not grant to the National Government and does not deny to the States.
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| show | Those powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone.
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| show | Those powers that both the National Government and the Stated possess and exercise.
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| show | A provision of the U.S. Constitution that stated that the Constitution, federal law, and treaties of the United Stated are the "supreme law of the land".
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| Enabling act | show 🗑
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| Act of admission | show 🗑
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| show | Grants of federal money or other resources to States, cities, countries, and other local units.
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| Categorical grant | show 🗑
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| show | One type of federal grant-in-aid for some particular but broadly defined area of public policy.
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| show | One type of federal grants-in-aid; made for specific projects to States, localities, and private agencies who apply for them.
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| show | Formal agreement entered into with the consent of Congress, between or among States, or between Stated and a foreign state.
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| Full Faith and Credit Clause | show 🗑
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| Extradition | show 🗑
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| show | Constitution's stipulation (Article IV,Sec.2) -- all citizens r entitled 2 certain"privileges and immunities,"regardless of where they live; no State can draw unreasonable distinctions between it own residents&those people who live in other States.
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