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14 Cards in this Set
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What is the role of the Government
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Maintain Order- narrow def.; briad def.
Protect Liberty- "Social Contract" - Hobbes and Locke Promote Equality |
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What are some of the Dilemmas of Government?
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Freedom vs. Order
Freedom vs. Equality |
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What is democracy?
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Demos (people) and Kratia (authority)
18TH century version = the Electoral College |
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What is Repubilcan?
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indirect democracy
representative democracy |
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what are some models of Democracy?
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Majoritarian- values participation by individual citizen; majority rules;
candidate elections, plus referenda & initiative; public opinion polls Pluralist- participation thur groups; no one group controls; biased against the poor; Madison's Federalist No. 10(pp. 46-47) |
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What are the five basic concepts of government?
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maintain order
protect freedom promote equality majoritarian vs. pluralist democracy we are decidely pluralist |
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when was the government begin
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1630
Virginia House of Burgesses General court odf Massachusetts |
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what is the treaty of paris 1763
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reform of the British Emprie-- control of trade & commerce
need for revenue-- taxation |
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What is the Imperial Debate
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it is the inseparably essentia to the freedom of a people-- that no taxes should e imposed on them, but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representative. Stamp Act Congress,1765
rejecting the virtual representtation theory the birth of interest group politics pluralist democracy |
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What are the Colonies react
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1765: Stamp Act Congress (9 in NYC)
1770: Boston Massacre 1774: Coercive Acts->> 1st Continental Congress 1775: Lexington & Concord->> 2nd Continental Congress 1776: July 4th-- Declaration of Independence |
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When was the revolutionary war
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1776- 1783
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What are the articles of confederation
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congress of the US(a legislative assembly)
a government of the states not based on consent of the governed |
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What happened in Alexandria (VA) 1785
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2 states meet VA & MD
concluded-- only 2 states doesn't work |
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What happened in Annapolis (MD) on Sept,1786
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invited all satates
called for a constitutional convention "revise" articles of confederation Shay's Rebebellion tipped the scales congress issues call-- come to PA, summer of '87 |
