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10 Cards in this Set
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Authority |
the right to use power |
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Elite |
personas who possess a disproportionate share of some valued resources, like money, prestige, or expertise |
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Representative Democracy |
a government in which leaders made decisions by winning a competitive struggle for the popular vote |
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One of the most striking transformations of Americas politics has been the extent to which, |
in recent decades, almost every aspect of human life has found its way into the political agenda |
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The founding fathers defense of liberty as a natural right was derived from the writings of |
17th century english philosopher John Locke. According to Locke, people will not agree to be ruled by a government that threatens their liberty. |
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Some names that were absent at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 |
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were serving as ministers abroad. Patrick Henry was chosen to attend but refused. He said he smelled a rat in Philly meaning a monarchy |
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In the Federalist papers Madison said: |
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal control on government would be necessary. |
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The New Jersey Plan |
enhanced the power of the government, but it did so in a way that left the states' representation in Congress unchanged from the Articles- each state would have one vote. |
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Federalism |
a political system in which the national government shares power with sub divisional governments (state governments in the United States). |
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McCulloch v Maryland |
Chief of Justice John Marshall argued that the government of the United States was not established by the states, but by the people, and thus the federal government was the supreme. The only way for such powers to be supreme was for their use to be immune from state challenge and for the products of their use to be protected against state destruction |
