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23 Cards in this Set
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The type of government practiced in the United States?
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Representative Democracy
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The document which lists the reasons the American colonists wanted to break away from England and be a free country?
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Declaration of Independence
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The name of the United States' first written plan of government?
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Article s of Confederation
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Term that describes a system where the powers of government are divided between the national, stat, and local levels?
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Federalism
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Type of government in which the people elext representatives to the government?
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Representative Democracy
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In which famous U S document is the following passage found, "all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."?
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Declaration of Independence
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Type of government where one leader has total power and they gain their postion of power by birth into a royal family:
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Monarchy
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Type of government where one leader has total pwer and they gain their position of pwer illegally, often by force
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Dictatorship
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Type of government where a small group of people rule:
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Oligarchy
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The branch of government that enforces or carrries out laws
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Executive
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Branch of government that reviews or interprets laws, punished lawbreakers, or determines if laws are unconstitutional:
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Judicial
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Branch of government that makes laws
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Legislative
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Name of the first ten amendments to the the U S Constitution
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Bill of rights
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The preamble is
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the introduction to the Constitution
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Term that describes a system in which each branch of government watches ober the others to keep one branch from misusing or gaining too much power
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Checks and balances
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The division of roles between the three branches of government is called
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Separation of powers
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The head of the House of Representatives
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Speaker
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The government official that signs a bill into law
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President
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The house of Representatives and Senate together known as
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Congress
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Each state is represented by _____ U S senators
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2
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Discussion by legislators in Congress to support or oppose a bill:
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Debate
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U S House of Representatives serve how many years in one term of office
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2
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What is the first step in the process of lawmaking in Congress
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a member of congress writes and introduces the bill
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