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| a system of government where |
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| The citizens make laws themselves instead of elected representatives doing it. |
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| Representative Government |
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| A representative democracy would be a government where people would elect their leaders and the leaders in power would have the power to rule and make laws. |
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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 linkage institution is a structure within a society that connects the people to the government or centralized authority |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| The original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789. |
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| a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention,providing for a legislature of two houses with proportionalrepresentation in each house and executive and judicial branches tobe chosen by the legislature. |
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a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention,providing for a single legislative house with equal representation foreach state.
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| The Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman's Compromise, was an agreement between large and small states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. It proposed a bicameral legislature, resulting in the current United States Senate and House of Representatives. |
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| a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. |
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| review by a court of law of actions of a government official or entity or of some other legally appointed person or body or the review by an appellate court of the decision of a trial court. |
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| system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and constituent political units. |
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| The enumerated powers are a list of items found in A1S8 of the Constitution that set forth the authoritative capacity of Congress. |
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| a power that may be exercised by a head of state without the approval of another branch of government. |
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| powers in nations with a federal system of government that are shared by both the State and the federal government. |
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| a group of individuals with a common political purpose. |
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| supporters of federalism. |
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| people who are against federalism |
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| list of the most important rights to the citizens of a country. |
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| a writ that requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court. |
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| an act of a legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without privilege of a judicial trial. |
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| a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law. |
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| changes made to the constitution |
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| Necessary and Proper Clause |
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| The specific powers and duties of the U.S. Congress are enumerated in several places in the Constitution. The most important listing of these powers is in Article I, Section 8, which identifies in 17 paragraphs the many important powers of Congress. |
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| a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional. |
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| s a political arrangement in which power is divided between national and state governments in clearly defined terms, with state governments exercising those powers accorded to them without interference from the national government. |
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| concept of federalism in which national, state, and local governments interact cooperatively and collectively to solve common problems, rather than making policies separately but more or less equally (such as the 19th-century's dual federalism) or clashing over a policy in a system dominated by the national government. |
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| a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote |
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| direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. |
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| a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before his or her term has ended. |
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| money coming from central government for a specific project. |
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| a funding that is offered by the federal government to local governments or states for specific programs. |
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| the formal notice of decision from an appeals court. |
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| the voluntary relinquishment or surrender of some known right or privilege. |
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