American Government Ch. 1 quizlet
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| show | The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.
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| Public policies | show 🗑
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| show | The power to make and frame public policies.
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| show | The power to execute, enforce, and administer law.
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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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| show | (every state) has supreme and absolute power within its own territory, and can decide its own foreign and domestic policies.
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| show | State was born of force
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| show | State developed naturally out of the early family
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| show | God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth a 'divine right' to rule.
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| The Social Contract Theory | show 🗑
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| Mikado | show 🗑
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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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| Unitary Government | show 🗑
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| Federal Government | show 🗑
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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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| show | A form of government in which the executive branch is made up of the prime minister, or premier, and that official's cabinet.
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| Compromise | show 🗑
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| Free Enterprise System | show 🗑
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| show | When supplies of goods and services become plentiful, prices tend to drop. When supplies become scarcer, prices tend to rise.
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| Mixed Economy | show 🗑
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| Limited Government | show 🗑
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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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| show | A legislative body composed of one chamber (one house).
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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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| show | Representatives.
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| show | Parliament passed a law that required the use of tax stamps on all legal documents, on certain business agreements, and on newspapers.
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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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| Popular Soverignty | show 🗑
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| show | Established "a firm league of friendship among the states. The stated came together" for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare.
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| Ratification | show 🗑
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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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| show | The group of delegated who attended the Philadelphia Convention.
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| Virginia Plan | show 🗑
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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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| Connecticut Compromise (The Great Compromise) | show 🗑
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| Three-Fifths Compromise | show 🗑
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| show | Congress was forbidden the power to tax the export of goods from any state. Forbidden the power to act on the slave trade.
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| Federalists | show 🗑
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| Anti-Federalists | show 🗑
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| Quorum | show 🗑
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| Electoral College | show 🗑
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| show | The division of power among a central government and several regional governments.
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| Treaty | show 🗑
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| Unconstitutional | show 🗑
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| Checks and balances | show 🗑
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| Executive agreement | show 🗑
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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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| Preamble | show 🗑
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| Constitutionalism | show 🗑
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| show | The seven numbered sections of the Constitution
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| Formal Amendment | show 🗑
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| Rule of Law | show 🗑
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| show | Power of the president to reject any act of Congress.
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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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| show | Powers the Constitution is presumed to have delegated to the National Government because it is the government of a sovereign state within the world community.
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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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| show | Congressional act admitting a new State to the Union.
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| Grant-in-aid program | show 🗑
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| Categorical grant | show 🗑
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| Block grant | show 🗑
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| Project grant | show 🗑
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| Interstate compact | show 🗑
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| Full Faith and Credit Clause | show 🗑
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| show | Legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one State is returned to that State.
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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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