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22 Cards in this Set
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Republic |
A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them. |
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Territory |
An area belonging to a group |
One word |
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Whit of Habeus Corpus |
A court order releasing an imprisoned person if authorities cannot show why that person is being held |
Four words |
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Evolutionary Theory |
When a government forms naturally over time based on social traditions |
Two words |
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Magna Carta |
The Great Charter establishing the principle that the power of the monarchy was not absolute in England; forced upon the king by his barons in 1215, and protecting fundamental rights as trial by jury |
Two words |
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Representative Democracy |
The people elect a person or people to make government decisions for them |
Two words |
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Force Theory |
When a person or group takes control of a territory or government by brute military force |
Two words |
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State |
A territory occupied by people |
One word |
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Country |
The territory occupied by a nation |
One word |
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Public Policy |
Policies, or actions that the government chooses to do |
Two words |
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Democracy |
The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group |
One word |
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Sovereign |
Independent of the control of other governments |
One word |
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Petition of Rights |
A major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. Passed on June 1628, the Petition contains restrictions on non-Parliamentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, etc. |
Three words |
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Direct Democracy |
The people make decisions on all policy |
Two words |
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Government |
The institution through which a society makes and enforces public policies |
One word |
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Precident |
An example or rule to follow for future court cases of the same nature |
One word |
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Limited Government |
Principle of government that states that government powers must be confined to those allowed it by the nation's Constitution |
Two words |
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Nation |
An organization of people that are bound together by a common trait or a common culture, but they do not necessarily live within one territory |
One word |
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Social Contract Theory |
A government forms voluntarily by the governed for the benefit of all involved |
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Articles of Confederation |
Document of the first U.S. government it provided for a weak national government with no executive or judicial branch |
Three words |
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U.S. Constitution |
The document under which the United States is governed; it set up our current framework of government |
Two words. There's an acronym involved |
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Divine Right Theory |
When a government is formed under the belief that a ruler or ruling group was chosen by a god/dess |
Three words |
