KHS Constitutional Underpinnings
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| show | A form of democracy in which most, or all, Of the citizenry participate directly by either holding office or making policy.
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| majoritarian politics | show 🗑
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| show | The ability of one person to cause another person to act in accordance with the first person's intentions.
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| show | A political theory espoused by C. Wright Mills which holds that an elite of corporate leaders, top military officers, and key political leaders make most political decisions.
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| show | A political system in which political power is conferred on those selected by voters in competitive elections.
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| show | Institutions have fallen under the control of large bureaucracies whose expertise is essential to the management of contemporary affairs.
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| show | The document establishing a "league of friendship" among the American states in 1781.
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| show | A law that declares a person, without trial, to be guilty of a crime. The state legislatures and congress are forbidden to pass such acts.
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| show | The first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
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| Constitutional Convention | show 🗑
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| show | A law which makes criminal an act that was legal when it was committed, or that increases the penalty for a crime after it has been committed, or that changes of the rules of evidence to make conviction easier.
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| show | A political system in which ultimate authority is shared between a central government and state or regional governments.
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| show | A series of eighty-five essays by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay to convince New Yorkers to adopt the newly proposed Constitution.
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| Great Compromise | show 🗑
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| show | certain rights dealing with life, liberty, and property. They are essential to human progress.
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| show | political power is portioned among the branches of government to allow self-interest to check self-interest.
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| show | rights granted at birth to all men that cannot be taken away.
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| show | grants given by the federal government to state and local authorities for a specific purpose defined in a federal law
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| show | grants given by the federal government to state and local authorities for a specific purpose defined by federal law
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| show | A form of government in which sovereignty is wholly in the hands of the states and local governments, so the national government is dependent on their will.
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| show | A condition which a state government must fulfill in return for taking federal funds.
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| devolution | show 🗑
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| show | An interpretation of the Constitution which holds that states are as supreme within their sphere of power as is federal government within its sphere of power.
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| federal system | show 🗑
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| show | The division of power between a national government and regional (state) governments, with the national government sovereign and the states retaining significant powers.
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| show | Federal funds provided to states and localities.
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| show | A provision that allows voters to place legislative matters directly on the ballot by getting enough signatures on a petition.
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| show | Requirements imposed on state and local governments to perform.
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| show | Article I, section 8 of the constitution, which authorizes Congress to pass all laws "necessary and proper" to carry out enumerated powers.
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| show | A grant-in-aid program that allowed states maximum discretion in the spending of federal funds.
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| show | The supreme or ultimate political authority.
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| show | States (or people) retain all powers not specifically delegated to the national government b the constitution.
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| show | A system in which sovereignty is wholly in the hands of the national government, so that sub national units are dependent on its will.
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