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| show | The House of Burgesses was the first elected general assembly in the colonies
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| Parts of the Declaration of Independence | show 🗑
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| show | the government gets its power to govern from the people that it governs.
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| show | drafts proposed laws, confirms or rejects presidential nominations for heads of federal agencies, federal judges, and the Supreme Court, and has the authority to declare war.
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| Why did Federalist agree to add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution? | show 🗑
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| show | No provision to regulate interstate trade and the Congress has right to regulate trade between states.
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| Differences between the Anti-Federalists and the Federalists | show 🗑
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| A major reason why the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution | show 🗑
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| show | James Madison
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| show | counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups.
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| show | Freedom to be yourself by law
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| show | The Anti- Federalists claimed the Constitution gave the central government too much power, and without a Bill of Rights the people would be at risk of oppression.
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| Federalists beliefs on the Constitution | show 🗑
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| show | First it makes a national government consisting of a legislative, an executive, and a judicial branch, with a system of checks and balances. Second, it divides power. And third, it protects individual liberties of American citizens.
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| Election of 1800 | show 🗑
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| show | the power to unilaterally stop an official action, especially the enactment of legislation.
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| Judicial Review | show 🗑
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| show | the principle of judicial review—the power of the federal courts to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional.
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| show | a political system replacing the government through free and fair elections; participation of the people; protection of the human rights of all citizens; and a rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens.
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| show | That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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| One goal of the American Revolution | show 🗑
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| the 14th, 15th, 19, and 21st amendments | show 🗑
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| show | a political group in which an authoritative leader or small group command the support of a corps of supporters and businesses, who receive patronage as reward for their efforts
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| Reapportionment of the Constitution | show 🗑
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| The concept in the opening words of the Preamble | show 🗑
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| Procedures for a president to be removed from office | show 🗑
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| Pocketbook Vote | show 🗑
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| Marbury v. Madison. Roe v. Wade. Plessy v. Ferguson. and McCulloch v Maryland. | show 🗑
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| show | The only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill or other matter, and thereby overcome a filibuster.
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| Formal qualifications to run for President and/or Congress | show 🗑
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| show | the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person.
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| How many amendments are in the Constitution today? | show 🗑
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| show | comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
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| Double Jeopardy | show 🗑
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| Refugees v. illegal aliens | show 🗑
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| show | Social Security
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| Magna Carta | show 🗑
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| show | Systems charge higher income individuals higher percentages of their income and offer the lowest rates to those with the lowest incomes. Or plans generally assign one tax rate to all taxpayers. Ignore the differences between rich and poor taxpayers.
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| show | Power is separated and shared.
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| show | created the United States Senate to protect the rights of individual states and safeguard minority opinion in a system of government designed to give greater power to the national government.
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| show | the clause in the First Amendment of the US Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion by Congress.
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| show | Federalism is a mixed or compound mode of government that combines a general government with regional governments in a single political system.
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| Steps for an amendment to be adopted | show 🗑
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| show | an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America
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| show | Jury service is a civic duty and an honored privilege bestowed upon ordinary citizens. We are accountable through our participation in jury service.
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| show | When your going to vote, you can do it openly or closed.
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| show | the state legislature draws the new districts.
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