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| Economic system marked by private ownership of the means of production and exchange, a market economy,economic competition, free trade and consumer sovereignty |
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| rights that allow citizens to evaluate how the government operates and to access the character and performance of parties and political leaders |
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| In the American context, proponents of tranditional values and institutions, including private property, enterprise, and family. Genreally favor liberty over equality |
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| Term used by political scientists to label countries. Combines the legal term "state" with the more psychological term "nation", which implies a strong sense of group of identity. |
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| Form of democracy in which citizens vote directly on matters of public policy instead of electing representatives |
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| Right that forbids such governmental action as the systematic destruction of a religious group, race, or class or such spurious legal action as a trial based on false evidence or coerced confesstion. |
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| Concept that empasizes equal political and social rights ot the condtion of being neither superior nor inferior. |
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| Econmoic policy in which commerce receivies minimum interferance from government |
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| Constitutional government charaterizedby popular rule,protection of basic rights, political and ecomomic competion |
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| Modern ideology that favors government intervention in the interest of public welfare, socail welfare, social justice, and fair play. |
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| In the American context, pronents of liberal democracy who empasize tolerance, generosity, and a willingness to experiment; advocate progressivism. |
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| In the American Context, pronents of liberal democracy who opposes government intervenation in economic affairs and favors expansion of personal freedoms. |
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| Freedom from slavery, impriosnment , captivity of any form of unlawful or abitrary control; sum of rights of a free individual group. |
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| Strong sence of cultural belonging and group loyality generally used to achieve political, ecomomic and socail freedom. |
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| Pluralist School/ Pluralism |
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| Political School maintaining that balance in diverse political communites is best achieved through a representaive democracy acting in accord with policies that advance the general welfare, while still recognizing that a rough approximation of the public interest emerges from the clash of contending interests. |
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| Beliefs and practices that guide political actors in real political communites. |
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| Constitutional rule by the many; also known as republican rule: republicanism |
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| In the American context, proponens of liberal democracy who favor government intervention in economic affairs and may oppose expansion of some "liberal" personal freedoms: liberalism |
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| Constitutional system in which government leadership is determined, directly or indirectly, by decisions of the electorate. |
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| Consitutional rule by the many |
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| Legal term for the entity commonly known as a country; requires people, territory,government, and accpetance by the intenational community. |
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| Legal theory that assers that with regard to forigen affiars and national security the president has decisive power. |
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