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| political authority conferred by law or by a state or national constitution |
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| Direct of participatory democracy |
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| a government in which all or most citizens participate directly |
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| A government in which leaders make decisions by winning a competitive struggle for the popular vote |
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| Persons who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resource, like money or power |
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| View that the government is dominated by capitalists |
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| View that the government is dominated by a few top leaders, most of whom are outside of government |
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| View that the government is dominated by appointed officials |
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| the belief that competition among all affected interests shapes public policy |
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| A human right based on nature or God |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| 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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| 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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| proposal to create a strong national government |
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| Proposal to create a weak national government |
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| 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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| a governement in which elected representatives make decisions |
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| The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional |
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| Government authority shared by national and state governments |
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| Authority shared by three branches of government |
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| powers given to the national government alone |
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| powers given to the state government alone |
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| powers shared by the national and state governments |
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| constitutional authority is shared by threee different branches of government |
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| A group with distinct political interest |
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| A group with distinct political interest |
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| Those who favor a strong national government |
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| Those who favor a strong national government |
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| Those who favor a weak national government |
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| an order to produce an arrested person before a judge |
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| A law that declares a person, without a trial, to be guilty of a crime |
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| a law that makes an act criminal although the act was legal when it was committed |
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| first ten amendments to the constitution |
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| a new provision in the Constitution that had been ratified by the states |
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| an executive's ability to block a particular provision in a bill passed by the legislature |
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