Am.Gov. Ch.1 quizlet Word Scramble
T V G E V R E E N E E N T S O T R I A P N R E M
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| Question | Answer |
| Representative Government | System of government in which public policies are made by officials selected by voters and held accountable in periodic elections. |
| Enabling act | A congressional act directing the people of a U.S. territory to frame a proposed State constitution as a step towards admission to the Union. |
| Veto | Power of the president to reject any act of Congress. |
| Public policies | All of those things a government decides to do concerning matter ranging from taxation, defense, education, crime, healthcare, transportation, and environment, civil rights and working conditions. (law) |
| Oligarchy | A government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite. |
| Federalism | The division of power among a central government and several regional governments. |
| Government | The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies. |
| Constitutionalism | Government must be conducted according to constitutional principles. |
| Sovreign | (every state) has supreme and absolute power within its own territory, and can decide its own foreign and domestic policies. |
| Grant-in-aid program | Grants of federal money or other resources to States, cities, countries, and other local units. |
| Magna Carta | A great charter -- at Runnymede in 1215. The power of monarchy was not absolute and guaranteed. Trial by jury and due process of law to the nobility. First document to limit the power of England's Monarch. |
| Act of admission | Congressional act admitting a new State to the Union. |
| Senatorial Courtesy | Long established custom that presidential appointees are acceptable to the senator of the president's party. |
| Articles | The seven numbered sections of the Constitution |
| Propeietary | A person to whom the king had made a grant of land. |
| Full Faith and Credit Clause | Constitution's requirement that each State accept the public acts, record, and judicial proceedings of every other State. |
| Free Enterprise System | America's economic system. Based on four fundamental factors (also called capitalism) -- Private ownership, individual initiative, profit, and competition. |
| Divine Right Theory | God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth a 'divine right' to rule. |
| Preamble | The short introduction to the Constitution. |
| Expressed powers | Those delegated powers of the National Government that are spelled out, expressly, in the Constitution; also called that "enumerated powers." |
| Treaty | A formal agreement between 2 or more sovereign states. |
| Confederation | An alliance of independent states. |
| Exclusive powers | Those powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone. |
| Quorum | A majority |
| Boycott | A refusal to buy or sell certain products or services. |
| Presidential government | A form of Government in which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate, independent, and coequal. |
| Extradition | Legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one State is returned to that State. |
| Legislative power | The power to make and frame public policies. |
| Unicameral | A legislative body composed of one chamber (one house). |
| Democracy | The power rest with a majority of the people. Supreme authority rest with the people. |
| Petition of Right | Limited the King's power. Monarch was subject to the law of the land. |
| Delegates | Representatives. |
| Ratification | Formal approval. |
| New Jersey Plan | Presented as an alternative to the Virginia plan. Called for a unicameral legislature in which each state would be equally represented. |
| Formal Amendment | Changed or additions that become part of the written language of the Constitution. |
| Division of powers | 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). |
| Presiding Officer | The person chosen by congress to be their chair person or president. (Not of the U.S.) |
| Framers | The group of delegated who attended the Philadelphia Convention. |
| Cabinet | Advisory body to the president. |
| Compromise | The process of blending and adjusting competing views and interest. |
| Unconstitutional | To declare illegal a government action found to violate the Constitution. |
| Concurrent powers | Those powers that both the National Government and the Stated possess and exercise. |
| The Evolution Theory | State developed naturally out of the early family |
| The Force Theory | State was born of force |
| Limited Government | Government is restricted in what it may do and each individual has certain rights that government cannot take away. |
| Checks and balances | Each branch of Government is subject to a number of constitutional restraints by the other branches. |
| Implied powers | Those delegated powers of the National Government that are suggested by the expressed powers set out in the Constitution; those "necessary and proper" to carry out the expressed powers. |
| Federal Government | A form of government in which powers are divided between a central government and several local governments. |
| Amendment | Changes in the written words of the Constitution (change to the meaning or interpretation of the Constitution). |
| Connecticut Compromise (The Great Compromise) | 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. |
| Bill of Rights | First 10 amendments to the Constitution. |
| Virginia Plan | The first plan for a new constitution -- this plan called for three separate branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. |
| Separation of Powers | Power is divided between 3 distinct and independent branches of government. |
| Mikado | Japanese emperoe |
| Autocracy | A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power. |
| Popular Soverignty | Government can exist only with the consent of the governed. AKA, "Power to the People". |
| Federalism | A system of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central, or national, government and several regional governments. |
| Inherent powers | 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. |
| Executive agreement | A pact between the president with the head of another country. |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | 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. |
| Bicameral | A legislative body compromised out of two chambers. |
| Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise | Congress was forbidden the power to tax the export of goods from any state. Forbidden the power to act on the slave trade. |
| Rule of Law | Government and its officers are always subject to and never above the law. |
| English Bill of Rights | Designed to prevent abuse of power by English Monarch agreed on by William and Mary of England in 1689. |
| Parliamentary Government | A form of government in which the executive branch is made up of the prime minister, or premier, and that official's cabinet. |
| Privileges and Immunities Clause | 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. |
| Supremacy Clause | 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". |
| Unitary Government | A centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency. |
| Stamp act of 1765 | Parliament passed a law that required the use of tax stamps on all legal documents, on certain business agreements, and on newspapers. |
| Division of Powers | Basic principle of federalism. Governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis. |
| The Social Contract Theory | The state arose out of a voluntary act of free people. The state exists only to serve the will of the people. They are the sole source of political power. |
| Executive power | The power to execute, enforce, and administer law. |
| Delegated powers | Those powers expressed, implied, or inherent, granted to the National Government by the Constitution. |
| Judicial power | The power to interpret laws, determine their meaning and to settle disputes that arise within the society. |
| Anti-Federalists | This group opposed ratification of the constitution (ratification=formal approved). |
| Philosophers | --England a. Thomas Hobbes (1611-1677) b. James Harrington (1611-1677) c. John Locke (1632-1704) |
| Block grant | One type of federal grant-in-aid for some particular but broadly defined area of public policy. |
| Constitution | The body of fundamental laws, setting out the principles, structures, and processes of a government. |
| Articles of Confederation | 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. |
| Federalists | One of two groups that favored ratification. |
| Categorical grant | One type of federal grant-in-aid; made for some specific, closely defined purpose. |
| Repealed | Withdrawn or cancelled. |
| Albany Plan of Union | Meeting to discuss the problems of colonial trade and the danger of attacks by the French and their Native American Allies. (Benjamin Franklin) |
| Judicial Review | Power of the courts to determine the constitutionality of a government action. |
| Mixed Economy | An economy in which private enterprise exist in combination with considerable amount of government regulation and promotion. |
| Law of Supply and Demand | When supplies of goods and services become plentiful, prices tend to drop. When supplies become scarcer, prices tend to rise. |
| Electoral College | Group that makes the formal selection of the president. |
| Project grant | One type of federal grants-in-aid; made for specific projects to States, localities, and private agencies who apply for them. |
| Dictatorship | Exercise power by a single person or a small group. |
| State | A body of people living in a defined territory, organized politically, power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority. |
| Charter | A written grant of authority from the king. |
| Interstate compact | Formal agreement entered into with the consent of Congress, between or among States, or between Stated and a foreign state. |
| Reserved powers | Those powers that the Constitution does not grant to the National Government and does not deny to the States. |
| Confederation | A joining of several groups for a common purpose. |
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