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42 Cards in this Set
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What are anti-federlists?
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A term used to describe opponents of the constitution during the debate over ratification.
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What is the bill of rights?
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The first ten amendments to the constitution.
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What is the system of checks and balances?
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The elaborate system of divided spheres of authority provided by the U.S. Constitution as a means of controlling the power of government.
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What is the constitution?
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The fundamental law that defines how a government will legitimately operate.
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What is constitutional democracy?
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A government that is democratic in its provisions for majority influence through elections and constitutional in its provisions for minority rights and rule by law.
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What are delegates?
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Elected representatives whose obligation is to act in accordance with the expressed wishes of the people they represent.
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What is democracy?
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A form of government in which the people govern, either directly or through elected representatives.
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What are denials of power?
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A constitutional means of limiting governmental actions by listing those powers that the government is expressly prohibited from using.
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What is electoral colleges?
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An uniffical term that refers to the electors who cast the states' electoral votes.
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What is electoral votes?
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The method of voting that isused to choose the U.S. president.
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What are federalists?
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A term used to describe supporters for the constitution during the debate over ratification.
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What are grants of power?
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The method of limiting the U.S. government by confining its scope of authority to those powers expressly granted in the Constitution.
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What is the great compromise?
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The agreement of the constitutional convention to create a two-chamber congress with the house apportioned equally by state.
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What are inalienable (natural) rights?
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Those rights that persons theoretically possessed in the state of nature, prior to the formation of governments.
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What is judicial review?
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The power of courts to decide whether a governmental institution has acted within its constitutional powers and, if not, to declare it action null and void.
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What are anti-federlists?
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A term used to describe opponents of the constitution during the debate over ratification.
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What is the bill of rights?
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The first ten amendments to the constitution.
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What is the system of checks and balances?
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The elaborate system of divided spheres of authority provided by the U.S. Constitution as a means of controlling the power of government.
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What is the constitution?
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The fundamental law that defines how a government will legitimately operate.
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What is constitutional democracy?
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A government that is democratic in its provisions for majority influence through elections and constitutional in its provisions for minority rights and rule by law.
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What are delegates?
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Elected representatives whose obligation is to act in accordance with the expressed wishes of the people they represent.
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What is democracy?
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A form of government in which the people govern, either directly or through elected representatives.
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What are denials of power?
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A constitutional means of limiting governmental actions by listing those powers that the government is expressly prohibited from using.
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What is electoral colleges?
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An uniffical term that refers to the electors who cast the states' electoral votes.
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What is electoral votes?
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The method of voting that isused to choose the U.S. president.
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What are federalists?
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A term used to describe supporters for the constitution during the debate over ratification.
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What are grants of power?
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The method of limiting the U.S. government by confining its scope of authority to those powers expressly granted in the Constitution.
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What is the great compromise?
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The agreement of the constitutional convention to create a two-chamber congress with the house apportioned equally by state.
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What are inalienable (natural) rights?
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Those rights that persons theoretically possessed in the state of nature, prior to the formation of governments.
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What is judicial review?
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The power of courts to decide whether a governmental institution has acted within its constitutional powers and, if not, to declare it action null and void.
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What is limited government?
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A government that is subject to strict limits on its lawful use of powers and hence on its ability to deprive people of their liberty.
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What is the New Jersey (small-state) Plan?
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A constitutional proposal for a strengthened congress but one in which each state would have a singe vote, thus granting a small state the same legislative power as a larger state.
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What is the North-South Compromise?
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The agreement over ecnomic and slavery issues thata enables northern and southern states to settle differrences that threatened to defeat the effort to draft a new constitution.
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What is primary election?
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A form of election in which voters choose a party's nominees for public office.
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What is representative democracy?
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A system in which the people participate in the decision-making porcess of gvernment not directly but indirectly, through the election of officials to represent their interests.
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What is republic?
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Historically, the form of government in which repreesntative officials met to decide on policy issues.
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What is self-government?
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The principle that the people are the ultimate source and proper beneficiary of governing authority.
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What are separated institutions sharing power?
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The principle that, as a way to limit government, its powers should be divided among separate branches, each of which also shares in the power of the others as a means of checking and balancing them.
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What is separation of powers?
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The division of the powers of givernment among separate institutions or branches.
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What are trustees?
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Elected representatives whose obligation is to act in sccordance with their own conscience as to what politics are in the best interests of the public.
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What is tyranny of the majority?
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The potential of a majority to monopolize power for its own gain and to the detriment of minority rights and interests.
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What is the Virginia (large0state) Plan?
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A constitutional proposal for a strong congress with two chambers, both of which would be based on numerical representation, thus granting more power to the larger states.
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