Ch. 1 - 5

Question 1

Article of Confederation

Answer 1

Plan of government adopted by the continental congress after the American Revolution

Question 2

Autocracy

Answer 2

A form of government in which a single person holds unlimited political power

Question 3

Bipartisan

Answer 3

Supported by two parties

Question 4

Consensus

Answer 4

General agreement among various groups on fundamental matters

Question 5

Democracy

Answer 5

A form of government in which the supreme authority rests with the people

Question 6

Executive power

Answer 6

Those powers that can be exercised by the national government

Question 7

Federal Government

Answer 7

A form of government in which powers are divided between a central government and many local governments

Question 8

Federalism

Answer 8

A system of government in which a written constitution divides peer between a central government and several local governments

Question 9

Free Enterprise

Answer 9

An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods

Question 10

Idealogical Parties

Answer 10

Parties based on a particular set of beliefs

Question 11

Judicial Powers

Answer 11

The power to interpret laws to determine their meaning and to settle disputes within society

Question 12

Judicial Review

Answer 12

The power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a government action

Question 13

Legislative

Answer 13

The power to make a law and to frame public

Question 14

Oligarchy

Answer 14

A form of government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self appointed elite

Question 15

Parliamentary Government

Answer 15

A form of government in which the executive branch is made up of the prime minister and their officials

Question 16

Partisanship

Answer 16

Government action based on a firm allegiance to a political party

Question 17

Political Spectrum

Answer 17

The range of political views

Question 18

Popular Sovereignity

Answer 18

Basic principle of the American system of government asserts that the people are the source of any and all governmental power and government can only exist with consent of the governed

Question 19

Public policy

Answer 19

All of the many goals that a government pursues in all of the many areas of human affairs in which it is involved

Question 20

Shays Rebellion

Answer 20

A series of events where Daniel Shay led an armed uprising that forced several state judges to close their courts

Question 21

Social Contract Theory

Answer 21

Means that states arose out of a voluntary act of free people. States only exist to serve the will of people and source of political power

Question 22

Unalienable

Answer 22

Not transferable to another or capable of being repudiated

Question 23

Veto

Answer 23

Chief executives power to reject a bill passed by legislation

Question 24

Confederate Government

Answer 24

A joining of several groups.

An alliance of independent states