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Chapter 1&2 Test
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History
11th Grade
09/17/2007

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Center Authority
Definition
The right to use power
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Center Authority
Definition
The right to use power
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Legitimacy
Definition
political authority conferred by law or by a state or national constitution
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Democracy
Definition
the rule of the many
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Direct of participatory democracy
Definition
a government in which all or most citizens participate directly
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Representative Democracy
Definition
A government in which leaders make decisions by winning a competitive struggle for the popular vote
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Elite
Definition
Persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource, like money or power
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Marxist view
Definition
View that the government is dominated by capitalists
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Power elite view
Definition
View that the government is dominated by a few top leaders, most of whom are outside of government
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Bureaucratic view
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View that the government is dominated by appointed officials
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pluralist view
Definition
the belief that competition among all affected interests shapes public policy
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unalienable
Definition
A human right based on nature or God
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Articles of Confederation
Definition
A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War
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Constitutional Convention
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Meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution
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Shay's rebellion
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A 1787 rebellion in which ex-Revolutionary war soldiers attempted to prevent foreclousers of farms as a result of high interest rates and taxes
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Virginia Plan
Definition
proposal to create a strong national government
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New Jersey Plan
Definition
Proposal to create a weak national government
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Great Comprimise
Definition
Plan to have a popularly elected house based pm state population and a state-selected Senate, with two members for each state
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Republic
Definition
a governement in which elected representatives make decisions
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Judicial Review
Definition
The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional
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federalism
Definition
Government authority shared by national and state governments
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checks and balances
Definition
Authority shared by three branches of government
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enumerated powers
Definition
powers given to the national government alone
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reserved powers
Definition
powers given to the state government alone
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concurrent powers
Definition
powers shared by the national and state governments
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Separation of Powers
Definition
constitutional authority is shared by threee different branches of government
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faction
Definition
A group with distinct political interest
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faction
Definition
A group with distinct political interest
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Federalists
Definition
Those who favor a strong national government
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Federalists
Definition
Those who favor a strong national government
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Antifederalists
Definition
Those who favor a weak national government
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Coalition
Definition
an alliance of factions
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habeus corpus
Definition
an order to produce an arrested person before a judge
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Bill of attainder
Definition
A law that declares a person, without a trial, to be guilty of a crime
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ex post facto law
Definition
a law that makes an act criminal although the act was legal when it was committed
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Bill of Rights
Definition
first ten amendments to the constitution
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amendment
Definition
a new provision in the Constitution that had been ratified by the states
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Line-item veto
Definition
an executive's ability to block a particular provision in a bill passed by the legislature
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