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| Decisions by government to pursue courses of action. |
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| A form of government in which the people govern, directly or through elected representatives. |
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| The use of courts of law by individuals to protect their rights |
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| An agreement to create a two-chamber Congress with the House apportioned by population and the Senate apportioned equally by state. |
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| The first 10 amendments to the Constitution. They are protections for persons accused of crimes. |
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| constitutional democratic republic |
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| A government that is constitutional for minority rights and rule by law. |
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| Hartz is best known for his classic book The Liberal Tradition in America (1955) |
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| A system of authority provided by the Constitution as a way of controlling the power of government. |
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| A person who strongly identifies with their own nation and supports its interests |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously in racial segregation |
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| Marbury v. Madison was a court case that established the U.S. Supreme Court's power of judicial review. |
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| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke |
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| In 1978 the Court ruled unconstitutional a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process. |
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| Implied powers are powers of U.S. government which have not been granted by the Constitution but that is implied necessary to be delegated for the purpose of carrying out the enumerated powers. |
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| The Constitution assigns each state a number of electors equal to the combined total of the state’s Senate and House of Representatives |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| Was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 |
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| The Executive Order No. 10925 was signed by President John F. Kennedy on 6 March 1961 |
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| First woman appointed to the Supreme Court in 1981 by Ronald Reagan |
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| These groups tend to be insiders and lobby the government to protect their economic stand. |
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| This term is used to describe a situation in which power is concentrated in the hands of a limited number of people. |
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| A great speaker who helped start the American Revolution. |
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| Gingrich was a candidate for the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2012. He is today active in public policy debates and works as a political consultant. |
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| A political theory derived from Karl Marx. |
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| Legal constraints on police |
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| Legal restraints on the police come from our Bill of Rights. They are designed to protect individual freedoms and prevent abuses of police power. |
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| A United States Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the 6th Amendment. |
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| Articles of the Constitutions |
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| They had to be ratified by at least nine states in order to become the law of the land. |
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