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| people rule directly or through elected leaders |
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| the process by which we choose government officals and make decisions about public policy |
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| participation in the colllective life of the community |
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| the bodies charged with making policies for citizens |
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| participation in the collective life of the community |
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| how we decide the officials |
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| one person has absolute power, has parliment |
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| ruled by one person in a bad way |
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| no one interfers between goverment and people |
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| you participate in the decesion making |
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| somebody with the authority to decide |
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| monarchy, aristoracy, democracy |
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| autocracy, oligarchy, democracy |
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| how you allocate benefits and costs |
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| involves conflict and concensus, competition and cooperation |
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| extra govermental activity |
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| extra govermental activity |
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| extra governmental activity |
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| extra governmental activity |
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| extra governmental activity |
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| extra governmental activity |
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| the capacity to make someone do what they would otherwise not do |
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| can decide whether or not to give you something |
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| congress, house of representatives, senate, military, supreme court |
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| how the whole thing is resolved |
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| refers to moral quality government acts with the best interest of the people at heart |
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| form of goverment in which decesions about public policy extends to the entire citizenry |
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| form of governement in which popular decesion making is restricted to electing or appointing the public officials who make the public policy |
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| the ability to get things done by controlling or influencing the institutions of government |
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| view positing that wealthy and well educated people exercise a disproportionate amount of influence over political decesion making |
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| various groups and colations constantly vie for goverment favor and the ability to exercise political power but noone enjoys long term dominance |
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| agreement at the constitutional convention splitting the legislature into two bodies, one apportioned to the population, the other assigning each state two members |
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| provision of article 1 of the constitution authorizing congress to make those laws necessary and proper for carrying out other laws it passes |
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| provision stipulating that the goverment in exercising any of the powers enumerated in the constitution must prevail over any conflicting state exercise of power |
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| power granted to the supreme court to rule on the constitutionality of a law |
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| society made up of classes in conflict |
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| society divided by those who own means of production and those who dont |
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| power-sharing arrangemnt between the national and state goverments in which some powers are granted to the national government alone, some powers are reserved to the states, some are held concurrently, and other powers are prohibited to both levels |
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| powers allocated to the government alone |
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| powers necessary to carry out enumerated functions of the government |
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| each level of goverment as distinct and authoritative within its own sphere of action |
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| (1819) does the national government have the authority to establish a national bank? could a state tax the banks operations within its borders? |
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| (1824) national government trying to assert power using the interstate commerce act |
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| national gov. has a limited set of constitutional purposes |
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| federalism characterized by tension rather than cooperation |
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| federal-state relationship of the post new deal era that addressed state and federal partnership in addressing social problems |
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| federal state relationship that sought to involve local populations and cities directly in addressing urban problems during the 60s and 70s |
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| a movement to grant states greater authority over the local operation of federal programs and local use of federal funds that gained momentum in the 1980s |
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| increased overlap between state and national goverment functions |
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| federal government uses financial incentives instead of legislation |
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| states have to agree to do certain things for money, grants |
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| supreme court decesions are used as a way of influencing relationships with states |
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| congress imposes legislation on states and requires them to meet minimum national standards |
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| process by which different protections in the bill of rights were incorporated into the 14th amendment |
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| freedom of religion, freedom of speech |
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| cant quarter soliders in times of peace, can in times of war |
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| protects against unreasonable searches and seziures |
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| use of grand juries, cant be tried for the same offense twice in the same court, due process |
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| speedy and public trial, trial by impartial jury, right to obtain witnesses |
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| right to jury in civil cases |
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| prohibts excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment |
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| mandates that those rights not explicity listed are reserved for the people |
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| mandates that those powers not delegated to the national government are retained by the states and the people |
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