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33 Cards in this Set
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Government |
the institution through which a society makes and enforces public policies |
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Autocracy |
one person has all the power |
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Monarchy |
king or queen rules the country |
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Dictatorship |
one leader has absolute control over citizens lives |
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Democracy |
citizens hold the political power |
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Representative Democracy |
citizens elect leaders to represent their rights and interests in government |
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Direct Democracy |
citizens are directly involve in day to day work of governing the country |
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Oligarchy |
a small group of people have all the power |
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Theocracy |
government recognizes a divine being as the ultimate authority |
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Anarchy |
no one is in control but also everyone is in control |
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Government Type: United States |
Representative Democracy |
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Government Type: Iran |
Theocracy |
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Government Type: England |
Monarchy |
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Government Type: North Korea |
Dictatorship |
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Social Contract |
made when people surrender some of their freedoms to a rule in order to keep other rights |
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State of Nature |
the situation in which there is no ruling authority and man is without government |
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John Locke |
limited power to king, theory was used to write Dec of Ind |
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Thomas Hobbe |
where all individuals were naturally equal and no laws or anyone to enforce them |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
extreme democrat, the social contract |
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Articles of Confederation |
articles of voluntary association of ind states |
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Federalist |
favored strong central government |
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Anti-Federalist |
opposed strong central government and the new constitution |
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The Great Compromise |
smaller states were threatening to leave, convention in danger of dissolving |
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Three-Fifths Compromise |
each slave would count as three-fifths a person |
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Amendment |
change in document |
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Bill of Rights |
first ten amendments of the constitution |
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What is the purpose of the Preamble of the Constitution? |
to state fundamental purposes, principles and goals the gov established |
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Powers not delegated to Congress are left up to the states |
10th |
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Freedom from unreasonable search and seizure |
4th |
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Freedom from cruel and unusual punishment |
8th |
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Freedom from double jeopardy |
7th |
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Right to a speedy trial |
6th |
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Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, petition |
1st |
