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| 3 Primary Purposes of the Government |
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1. Maintain Order
2. Provide Public Goods
3. Promote Equality |
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1. Democrats
2. Bold Ideas
3. Change for Government
4. For Social Change
5. For Government Involvement in Economy
6. Less Government in Social Issues |
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1. Republican
2. Status Quo
3. Fiscal Budget
4. Little Government Involvement in Economy
5. Smaller Government
6. Social Policy (Maintain Social Norms) |
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| Basically a game. Who gets what when and how. |
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| Benefits and services that are available to everyone |
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| A system of government where citizens elect public officials to govern on their behalf. |
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| Purpose of the Declaration of Independence |
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1. Political Document- justification for why we are going to war
2. Philosophical Document- creates the definition of American Democracy |
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| The belief that the people agree to set up rulers for certain purposes and thus have the right to resist or remove rulers who act against those purposes. |
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| A set of nine resolutions that would have, in effect, preserved the Articles of Confederation by amending rather than replacing them. |
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| Includes separation of the government into 3 branches, division of the legislature into two houses, and proportional representation in the legislature |
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| A plan calling for a bicameral legislature in which the House of Representatives would be apportioned according to population and the states would be represented equally in the Senate. |
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| Gave states with large slave population greater representation in Congress |
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1. Last of Connecticut Compromise
2. Wanted to create a system to select presidents
3. not most popular, but most qualified
4. Number of State House members + Number of State's Senators |
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1. Make Laws
2.Confirm Senates
3. Override executive veto
4. Impeach
5. Create or eliminate courts |
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1. Veto legislature
2. Recommend Legislature
3. Enforce Laws
4. Grant pardons
5. Nominate judges |
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1. Review legislature acts
2. Review executive acts
3. Issue injunctions
4. Interpret laws |
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| Requires the Electoral College to vote separately for president and vice president |
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| Gives citizens of Washington, D.C. the right to vote for President |
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| The power to declare government acts invalid because they violate the Constitution |
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| Supreme Court declared that the courts have the power to nullify government acts when they conflict with the Constitution |
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| Article 5: How to Amend the Constitution |
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1. Proposal Stage
a. 2/3 of both HOR and Senate
b. National Convention ( 2/3 of state legislature participate)
2. Ratification Stage
a. 3/4 Of State legislature agree
b. Convention of 3/4 of State's citizens |
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| Bill of Rights Provisions |
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| They prevent the national government from tapering with fundamental rights and civil liberties and emphasize the limited character of national power |
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| Way of organizing a country so that 2 or more levels of government have formal authority over the same land and people |
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| Two Reasons Federalism is Important |
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1. Decentralizes our politics
2. Decentralizes our policies |
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| The states or people retain all powers not delegated to the national government |
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| Expanded the role of National Government |
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| Powers granted to Congress by the Constitution |
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| Powers that Congress requires in order to execute its enumerated powers |
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| Necessary and Proper Clause |
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| Gives Congress the means to execute its enumerated powers. This Clause is the basis for Congress's implied powers |
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| Powers of the National Government are fixed and limited |
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| Agreement among people who are citizens of both state and nation, so there is little distinction between state powers and national powers |
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