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21 Cards in this Set
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The institution through which a society makes and enforces it's public policies |
Government |
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Considered to be the "genius of American politics" |
Compromise |
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Government in which power is held by one person |
Dictatorship |
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This favored the larger states because representation would be based on a states population |
Virginia plan |
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This favored the smaller states because representation would be equal for all states |
New Jersey plan |
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Wrote declaration of independence |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Father of the constitution |
James Madison |
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This group opposed ratification |
Anti-federalists |
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Supported the ratification of the constitution |
Federalists |
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This was a combination of both the new Jersey plan and the Virginia plan |
Great compromise |
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This helps keep one branch of government demo dominating the other two |
Checks and balances |
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The division of political power among a central government and several local governments |
Federalism |
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The power to determine the constitutionality of an action of the government |
Judicial review |
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The distribution of the powers of national government among the executive legislative and judicial branches |
Separation of powers |
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The idea that government is not all powerful, that it may do only those things that the people have given it the part to do |
Limited government |
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The idea that government must be conducted according to conditional principles |
Popular sovereignty |
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This creates a ladder of laws in which the constitutionality is located at the top rung |
Supremacy clause |
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Agreements among states and non_politcal Agreements with foreign nations |
Interstate compact |
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The law that says states must honor one another public acts, records, and court actions |
Full faith and credit |
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The legal process in which a fugitive from justice on one state is returned to that state from another |
Extradition |
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The belief in having more than one wife |
Polygamy |
