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POWER: 3 Faces. Name all three and the 4th
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Open contestation
Agenda Setting Framing or Categorization Non rhetorical |
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Name this face of power....
Election Court Trial, present vs congress, sporting contest, who wins and who loses |
Open Contestation (dispute)
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Name this face of power...
Power can be simply non rhetorical... |
Non Rhetorical
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Name this face of power...
Politics are rarely a clear example. Ex: shootings in columbine. 9/11. Something happened that is horrible, and us not really knowing why- to much freedom, to little freedom? Bad parenting? BASICALLY, there is several ways to think about certain things that happen |
Framing or Categorization
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Name this definition...
Rule of the people. NOT rule of many. |
DEMOCRACY
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Elitism or Pluralism?
These are the people who actually be ruling. Study people at the top. Controlled by relatively small number of people. Basically, necessarily a few. |
Elitism
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Elitism or Pluralism
Part of a society ruled by groups. groups competing for power. |
Pluralism
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"government is always government by the few, whether in the name of the few, the one, or the many."
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Elitism
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From an elitism point of view finish this sentence...
We cannot form a club, a church, a business, or a government without selecting some people to provide ______. |
Leadership
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Elitism Or pluralism
The belief that democracy can be achieved in a large, complex society by competition, bargaining, and compromise among organized groups and that individuals can participate in decision making through membership in these groups and by choosing among parties and candidates in elections. |
Pluralism
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Pluralist would join what kind of groups...
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Organized groups and Leadership groups.
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Everyone actively participates in every decision.
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Direct Democracy
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This recognizes that it is impossible to expect millions of people to come together and decide every issue. Representatives of the people are elected by the people to decide issues on behalf of the people.
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Representative democracy
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Representative Government/Republican Governments Rule through who?
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Delegates
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Some can flourish and some can't. Major Tension.
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Liberty and equality
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Government is ditiniguised from other social organizations in that it...
2 things |
1. Extends to the whole society.
2. Can legitimately use force. |
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Identify the 6 purposes for which government is established.
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1.Maintain order in society
2. Provide for national defense 3. Provide "public goods" 4. Regulate Society 5. Transfer income 6. Protect individual liberty |
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Recognition of the individual dignity and personal freedom.
Equality before the law. Widespread participation in decision making. majority rule, with one person equaling one vote. |
The principles of Democracy
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Descriptive of political processes and institutions: what is going on and what are the practices and organizations that make up political life...
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Political Science
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Political science analyzes what?
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Causality... What explains what happens. What is causing it. Trying to explain something.
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What is politics or government trying to do? how can government or the processes of government be improved. How do to improve government
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Normative goals.
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What is scientific about political science?
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Investigating relationships with CONCEPTUAL CARE, OBJECTIVITY, and EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE/DATA. Fitting ideas to reality.
Builds Theory |
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Fitting ideas and arguments to reality and developing and testing hypotheses (Ex: presidential elections and unemployment) name 4 things that is necessary when building a theory in politics...
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1. Collecting data
2.Analysis and interpretation 3. Clear, straightforward writing.. Its not supposed to be opinion. It needs to be some STRAIGHT FORWARD WRITING. 4. CLEAR DEFINITION |
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Social contract: a covenant both under God and among each other.
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Mayflower Compact
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What did the may flower compact leave unresolved?
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Women are silent, children aren't a part of it and most of the crew.
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The mayflower compact is...
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A social contract or compact: a covenant both under God and among each other.
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The mayflower compact is under whom?
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God and among each other.
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Who took over most of america in the early american history?
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Overwhelmingly Northwestern Europe
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One-half of who were Indentured Servants and convicts?
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Euro-Americans
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What was the imbalance in the early american History?
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imbalance of white males to females, form 10:1 to 6:1; even 2:1 with African Slaves. 25 % mortality in 1st year in America
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
The Declaration of Independence is the product of... |
Enlightment
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
2 "natural" aspects... What are they? |
1. Natural Law: self-evident truths
2. Natural ("inalienable") rights |
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
How much of the text in the declaration of independence is grievances? |
Three-Quarters (Very spacious)
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Its very much a document of what policy? |
Foreign
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
It doesn't set up what? |
Clear form of government
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
To Who are references that aren't clear and how many of them in the Declaration of Independence? |
God, vaguely christian
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
What isn't clear about the five references to God in the Declaration of Independence? And why do they do it that way? |
1. Not very clear on what Christian god it is
2. Makes sense because there is a lot of different Christian views. They make it Vague on purpose. |
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ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
Who do what? |
Each state Sovereign I and II
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ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
States unite together for what four reasons? |
1. Common defense
2. Religion 3. Trade 4. Immigration |
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ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
How many votes for each state? and can the states have multiple delegates? |
One.
Yes |
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ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
how many out of what number do you need to enact law? |
9 of 13 (supermajority)
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ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
It's weak because... 5 things... |
Revenues: each state contribute proportionally, per congress
2. Leauge of political union 3. Canada can join the union but no other colony unless states agree 4. Creditors made good 5. Signed JUly 9, 1778, ratified 1 march 1781 |
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Federalism
How many layers of government? |
2 (can be more)
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What are the two chief issues of federalism?
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Degree of centralization (low to high) in larger, overarching government
How does each state (or smaller unit of government) relate to each other |
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The US public domain after the treaty of paris, 1783. The trans-Appalachian West.
Name 3 out of 5 threats... |
3rd threat- Threat of separation
4th threat- Internal Order. (very serious threat) mobs, policing. Moved to washington because Philidelphia couldn't keep safe their own city. 5th threat- MONEY (very important) Very costly |
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Who was an important early historian scientist? ALSO top progressive. who wanted to make politics more accurate?
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Beard
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Beard brought attention to who's writing to who?
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Madisons writing to Federal Ten
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Federal ten controlled...
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MAJORITIES
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What was beards questioning of this document?
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Were the members of the convention represent members of interested groups or were they working merely under the guidance of abstract principles of political science.?
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pt 6 constituion... was what?
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"essentialy an economic document" based on
1. concept that fundamental private rights of property are anterior to governement, they precede government (they are before government) and morally beyond reach of popular majorities |
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brown says that beard has two claims... they are?
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Interests of personal wealth by founders
selection of delegates to convention and to delegates and state conventions unrepresentative of the people |
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who had some evidence and who had none?
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beard had some evidence and brown had none
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data from Virgina's "Northern Neck"
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1. Land highly unequally distributed. 4.7 K on property tax rolls; 2.2 L on land tax rolls
2. Top 10 percent, more than 650 acres. 3. Slave ownership: top 10% 15 slaves or more, top 1% 51 slaves; bottom 47 % slaves 4. Wealth and political power hand in hand |
