Chapters 1-3

Question 1

Concurrent Powers

Answer 1

Powers shared by both national and state levels of government

Question 2

Bicameral

Answer 2

Two houses or chambers

Question 3

Authoritarian Regime

Answer 3

An oppressive system of government in which citizens are deprived of their basic freedom to speak write associate and participate in political life without fear of punishment

Question 4

Separation of Powers

Answer 4

State in which the powers of the government are divided among the three branches

Question 5

Declaration of Independence

Answer 5

The formal proclamation declaring independence for the 13 colonies of England in North America approved and signed of july 4th 1776

Question 6

Concurrent powers

Answer 6

Powers shared by both national and state levels of government

Question 7

Social contract

Answer 7

European philosophers who reasoned that the most efficient way to create the best government was to understand human nature in a state prior to government

Question 8

Sovereignty

Answer 8

The independence and self government of a political entity

Question 9

Thomas Paine

Answer 9

Common Sense pamphlet helped crystalize the idea of revolution for the colonist

Question 10

Articles of confederation

Answer 10

The first constitutional framework of the new United States of America approved in 1777 by the second constitutional congress it was later replaced by the current constitution

Question 11

Supremacy clause

Answer 11

Article IV of the constitution holding that in any conflict between federal laws and treaties and state laws the will of the national government always prevails

Question 12

Universal suffrage

Answer 12

The requirement that everyone must have the right to vote

Question 13

Order

Answer 13

A condition in which the structures of a given society and the relationships thereby defined among individuals and clauses compromising it are maintained and preserved by the rule of the law and police power of the state

Question 14

Judicial review

Answer 14

The power of the supreme court established in Marbury V Madison to overturn acts of the president.

Question 15

Gibbons Vs. Ogden

Answer 15

The 1824 decision by John Marshall that gave congress the power under the interstate commerce clause to regulate anything that affects the transfer of goods between states

Question 16

Bill of rights

Answer 16

The first 10 amendments to the constitution added in 1781

Question 17

Freedom

Answer 17

A value that suggests that no individual should be within the power or under the control of another

Question 18

Ratify

Answer 18

An act of approval of proposed constitutional amendments by the states; 2nd step of amendment process

Question 19

The great compromise

Answer 19

A plan presented at the constitution conversation that upheld the large state position for the house its membership based on proportional representation balanced by the small state posture of equal representation in the senate

Question 20

Referenda

Answer 20

Proposed by policy measures submitted for direct popular vote

Question 21

Direct democracy

Answer 21

A type of government in which people govern themselves vote on polices and laws and live by majority rule

Question 22

Intrest groups

Answer 22

Formal organizations of people who share a common outlook or social circumstance and who band together in hope of influencing the government

Question 23

Confederation

Answer 23

A league of sovereign states that delegates powers on selected issues to a central government

Question 24

Federal Mandates

Answer 24

A direct order from congress that the states must fulfill

Question 25

Fulcrum Powers

Answer 25

The 5 constitutional provisions that dictate the balance of power between the national and state government in the federal structure. Interstate clause, general welfare clause, necessary and proper, supremacy, & 10th amendment

Question 26

Compact

Answer 26

Agreement that legally binds two or more parties to enforce rules

Question 27

Political Party

Answer 27

Organizations that exist to allow likeminded members of the population to group together and magnify their individual voices into a focus promoting individual candidates and government action

Question 28

Block grants

Answer 28

Federal grants that provide money to states for general program funding with few or no strings attached

Question 29

Three Fifths Compromise

Answer 29

Slaves were 3/5 of the population counted as three fifths of a person

Question 30

Devolution

Answer 30

Reducing the size and authority of the federal government by returning the programs to the states

Question 31

Federalist

Answer 31

Those in favor of the constitution

Question 32

Implied Powers

Answer 32

Powers not specifically stated in the constitution but inferred from the express powers

Question 33

Secession

Answer 33

the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state

Question 34

Public opinion polls

Answer 34

Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals.

Question 35

The constitution

Answer 35

a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed. The basic written set of principles and precedents of federal government in the US, which came into operation in 1789 and has since been modified by twenty-six amendments.

Question 36

Legitimacy

Answer 36

conformity to the law or to rules ability to be defended with logic or justification; validity.

Question 37

Anarchy

Answer 37

a state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems.

Question 38

Electoral College

Answer 38

(in the US) a body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.

Question 39

Essay

Answer 39

Direct:government people govern themselves; vote on polices and laws Representative: small # of people designate someone to represent their interest Free elections, free press, competitive political parties, interest groups Freedom stability equality order

Question 40

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 40

author of Dio

Question 41

John Locke

Answer 41

Most influential social contract theorist | Two treaties on government

Question 42

Expressed powers

Answer 42

Judicial Executive Legislative