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35 Cards in this Set
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Political thinking |
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Political science |
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Political culture |
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Liberty |
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Individualism |
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Equality |
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Self government |
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Politics |
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Power |
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Democracy |
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Majoritarianism |
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Pluralism |
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Party polarization |
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Authority |
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Constitutionalism |
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Legal action |
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Free market system |
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Corporate power |
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Elitism |
Notion that wealthy and well-connected individuals exercise power over certain areas of public policy |
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Public policies |
Decisions by government to pursue particular courses of action |
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Public policy process |
The political interactions that lead to the recognition of a policy problem the development of a response to it and the Implement of the response |
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Representative government |
A government in which the people govern through the selection of their representatives |
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Social contract |
A voluntary agreement but individuals to form a government that is obliged to act within the confines of the agreement |
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Inalienable natural rights |
Those rights that person's theoretically possess in the state of nature prior to the formation of governments |
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Constitution |
The fundamental law that defines how the government will legitimately operate |
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Virginia Plan |
A constitutional proposal for strong congress with to Chambers both of which would be based on a numerical representation desecrating more power to the larger States |
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New Jersey Plan |
A constitutional proposal for the strength and Congress but one in which each state would have a single vote that's granting a small state the same legislative power as the large state |
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Great Compromise |
The agreement at the Constitutional Convention to create a two-chamber congress with the house of Fortune by population in the Senate apportioned equally by state |
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Three-Fifths Compromise |
A cover moms work at at the 1787 Convention between northern states and southern states each slave was to be a counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of federal taxation |
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Anti-Federalists |
The term used to describe opponents of the Constitution during the debate over ratification |
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Federalist |
The term used to describe supporters of the Constitution during the debate over ratification |
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Grants of power |
The method of limiting the US government by confining its scope of authority to those Powers expressly granted in the Constitution |
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Denials of power |
A constitutional means of limiting government by listing those powers that government is expressly prohibited from using |
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Separation of powers |
The division of the powers of government among separate institutions of branches |
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Judicial review |
The power of courts decide whether or governmental institution has acted within its Constitutional Powers and if not to declare its action Nola and void |
