gov unit 1

Question 1

Natural rights

Answer 1

born given rights (cannot be taken away)

Question 2

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 2

by, nature the power is in the Hands of the PEOPLE

Question 3

Social Contract

Answer 3

in order to protect their natural rights, they give away their rights (willingly) to government

Question 4

republicanism

Answer 4

people elect leaders to represent them and create laws in public interest

Question 5

Limited government

Answer 5

government is prevented from tyranny through systems of checks and balances

Question 6

Participatory democracy

Answer 6

broad participation in the political process by most members of society (local)

Question 7

Pluralist Democracy

Answer 7

groups of people and interest groups to provide people with a voice (interest groups RNA)

Question 7

Elite democracy

Answer 7

government needs educated people to run it

Question 8

Brutus 1

Answer 8

danger of a large centralized government, could not represent the people properly

Question 9

Fed 10

Answer 9

fractions are bad (big groups of people thinking they need it better) and only way to control factions is letting them happen since large republic would stop it

Question 10

Great compromise

Answer 10

how people would be represent in congress

Question 11

Bicameral

Answer 11

two different branches in CONGRESS

Question 12

Congress

Answer 12

making laws, power of the purse, and controlling the calendar

Question 13

President

Answer 13

executing and enforcing laws ( can veto laws)

Question 14

Judicial Branch

Answer 14

determine the constitutionality of laws (the power of judicial review judges the laws)

Question 15

federalism

Answer 15

THE SHARING OF POWER BETWEEN NATIONAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS

Question 16

EXCLUSIVE POWER

Answer 16

specifically delegated by the constitution to the federal government (only congress can make treaties with other nations)

Question 17

RESERVED POWERS

Answer 17

Kept by states (10th amendment) (Police, hospitals and Education)

Question 18

CONCURRENT POWERS

Answer 18

Shared by both federal and states (taxes)

Question 19

categorical grants

Answer 19

given to states as long as they follow the federal strandards

Question 20

block grants

Answer 20

given to states to spend as they see fit (has control to spend money to met the federal strandards

Question 21

10th amendment

Answer 21

Powers kept by states

Question 22

14th amendment

Answer 22

applies bill of rights to the states

Question 23

McCulloch V Maryland

Answer 23

necessary and proper clause implied certain powers given to the federal government even if they were not said in the constitution (congress getting more power)

Question 24

US v Lopez

Answer 24

congress used commerce clause to ban guns on school but court said Congress overstepped it's bounds into state authority (state getting more power)