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Term

One that is subject to strict linits on its lawful uses of power.

 

a.Limited government

b.economic liberals

c.party identification

d.sample

Definition
a
Term

 government based on the people and subject to their control.

 

a.population

b.self government

c.political socialization

d.public opinion poll

Definition

 

b.

 

Term

including those of life, liberty,and property and can rebel against a ruler who tramples o these rights

 

a.freedom of expression

b.libel

c. slander

d.inalienable rights or naturl rights

Definition
d.
Term

called for a two-chamber congress that would have supreme authority in all areas in which the separate states are incompetent,'' particularly defense and interstate trade.

 

a.slander

 b.exclusionary rule

c.Virgina Plan(lso called the large-state plan)

d.Bill of Rights

Definition

c.

Term

called for a stronger national government with the power to tax and toregulate commerce among the state; in most other respects, however, the Articles would remain in effect.

 

a New jersey plan(also called the small-state plan)

b.air wars

c.grssroots party

d pary organizations

Definition

a.

 

Term

One chamber, the House of Representatives, would be apportioned among the states on the basis of population.

 

a.party organizations

b. political party

c.retrospective voting

d.great compromise

Definition

d.

Term

(issues)The  southern states feared the the states of the North, which wre more numerous and had a larger population,

 

a.two-party system

b.split ticket

c.north-south compromise

d.single-issue (minor) party

Definition

c.

Term

Opponents of the constitution during the debate over ratificaton.

 

a Anti-Federalists

b.agents of socialization

c. ideology

d.political socialization

Definition
a.
Term

 the constitution's supporters of the constitution durrin the debate over ratification

 

 

a.population

b.federalists

c.smple

d.party identification

Definition
b.
Term

The fundamental law that defines how a governments will legitimately operate.

 

a.constitution

b.social liberals

c.social conservatives

d. sampling error

Definition
a.
Term

The framers chose to limit the national government in part by confining its scope to constituatuional.

 

a.ideology

b.economic liberals

c.agents ofsocialization

d.grants of power.

Definition
d.
Term

 The farmers              also usedmean to limit government, prohibiting certain paractices the European ruler had routinely used to intimidate politial oppoenents.

 

a.denial of power

b.equal rights

c.reasonable-basis test

d.suspect classifications

Definition

a.

Term

the idea of a             had been propsed decades earlier by the French theorist Montesquieu. (The  divioison of the powers of government among speparate institutions or branches.)

 

a. separated of powers.

b. agenda setting

c. news

d. partisam function

Definition

a.

Term

The framers's concep of divided powers has been decribed by political scentist Richard Neustadt as the principle of             . ( The result is the no one branch can support or acquiescence of the others.)

a.press

b.framing

c.separated institutions

d.sinaling

Definition
c.
Term

The separate branches are interlocked in such a way that an elaborate system of          is created no istitution can act decisively without the support or acquiescence of the institutions.(divded spheres US constitution as a mean of  controlling the power of govement.)

 

a. agents of socialization

b.economic conservative

c. check and balances

 

Definition
c.
Term

These amendments, traditionally called the        , include right such as freedomof speech and religion and due process protections for persons accused of crimes.(jury trial and legal counsel)

 

a.Bill of Right

b.population

c.public opinion poll

d.ideology

Definition
a
Term

          That is, the grounds, the Court asserted its power  of the judiciary to decide whether a government official or institution has acted within the limits of the constitution and, if not, to declare its action null and void.

 

a.party identification

b.political socialization

c.sample.

d.judicial review

Definition
d.
Term

Framers, the great risk of popular governments was       The people acting as an irrational mob that tramples on the rights of the minority.

 

a. tyranny of the majority

b.civil liberties

c.prior restraint

Definition
a.
Term

The  goverment in which the power of the majority is unlimited, whether exericised directly(as in the case of town meetings open all citizens) or through a repersentative body.

 

a.libel

b.clear-and-present-danger test

c.demoracy

 

Definition
c.
Term

 government that is based on majority rule but the protects the minority throught a guarantee of individual rights and othe checks on majority power. (representative officials met to decide on policy issues.)

 

a.slander

b.symbolic speech

c.republic

Definition
c.
Term

 act as the public's         representatives are obliged to serve the interest of those who elected them, but the nature of this interest is for the representatives not the voters, to decide.

 

a. trustees

b.right of privacy

c.symbolic speech

d.free-esercise clause.

Definition
a.
Term

the framers finally chose to have the president selected by the votes of electors.

 

a.affirmative action

b.Electoral College

c.equal rights.

d.resonable-basis test

 

Definition
b.
Term

Each state would have the number of electoral votes as it had members in congress and could select its electors by a method of its choosing.

 

a. electoral votes

b. iron triangle

c.outside lobbying

d.single-issue politics

Definition
a.
Term

officeholders who are obligated to respond directly to the expressed opinions ofthe people they represent.

 

a.delegates

b.population

c.polictical socialixation

d.public opinion

Definition
a.
Term

which gives rank-and file voters the power to select party nominess.

 

a.primary election

b. public opinion poll

c.ecomomicliberals

d.agents of socialization

Definition
a.
Term

majority influence through exercised accordance with law and  individual rights and rule.

 

a.sampling error

b.economic liberals

c.constitutional democracy

d.party caucus

Definition
c.
Term

the  often used interchangeably to refer to a system of government in which political power rests with the people through their ability to choose representateive in free and far elections.

 

a.representative government

b.social capital

c.civic duty

d.suffrage.

Definition
a.
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