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Government Definition |
The institutions that have the authority and capacity to create and enforce public policies for a specific territory and people |
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Social Contract Definition |
An agreement among members of a society to form and recognize the authority of a centralized government that is empowered to make and enforce laws governing the members of that society |
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Politics Definition |
individual and collective efforts to influence the workings of government |
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Critical Thinking Definition |
disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence |
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Political Culture Definition |
values and beliefs of citizens toward the political system and toward themselves as actors in it |
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Federalism Definition |
A form of government that distributes power across a national government and subnational governments and ensures the existence of the subnational governments |
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What is Congress |
the legislative branch of government bicameral consists of the senate and house of representatives |
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What does the legislative branch do |
creates laws impeachment |
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How many members are in the house of reps |
435 |
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how long is a term for the house of reps |
2 years |
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What is state representation based on |
population |
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how many members does the senate have |
100 |
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how long is a term in the senate |
6 years |
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how many senators per state are there |
2 |
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Impeachment definition |
Act of charging government officials with ‘treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors |
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what is the first step of impeachment |
The House of Representatives votes for the impeachment charge |
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what is the second step of impeachment |
If a majority of Representatives vote in favor, the official is impeached |
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what is the third step of impeachment |
Case is sent to the Senate, which functions as a court |
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what is the fourth step of impeachment |
If 2/3 of the Senators convict, the official is removed from office |
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which 2 presidents have been impeached? |
Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton |
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what are the first 3 steps of a bill becoming a law |
idea, proposal, introduction |
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what happens after a bill is introduced |
goes to a committee, reported, debated |
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after a bill is debated it |
is voted on, referred to the senate, then sent to the president |
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what is a filibuster |
A procedure by which senators delay or prevent action on a bill by making long speeches and engaging in unlimited debate |
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what does the executive branch do |
enforces laws |
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who makes up the executive branch |
president, vice president, cabinet |
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what is the cabinet |
a group of top-ranking officials of every major federal department, plus other officials included by the president, who meet periodically with the president to discuss major administration priorities and policies |
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who makes up the judicial branch |
9 supreme court justices |
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what are the three branches of government |
judicial, executive, and legislative |
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What is checks and balances |
limits imposed on all branches of a government by vesting in each branch the right to amend or void those acts of another that fall within its purview |
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how is the constitution amended |
after two-thirds of the House and Senate approve of the proposal and send it to the states for a vote. Then, three-fourths of the states must affirm the proposed Amendment. |
