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| the process through which conclusions are reached. It involves the careful evaluation of information in the process of forming a judgement about the issue at hand. |
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| What is the major barrier to political thinking? |
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| People are unwilling to make the effort that is required |
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| ___________ is the means by which society settles its conflicts and allocates the resulting benefits and costs |
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The widely shared and deep-seated beliefs of its people about politics
Liberty, individualism, equality, and self-government are widely regarded as America’s core political values |
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Compared with Great Britain or France the US spends about ____% more per pupil annually on its primary and secondary schools
A. 10%
B. 20%
C. 30%
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| _________ is a theory of American politics that holds that society’s interests are substantially represented through power exercised by groups. |
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| imposed taxes on all glass, paper, tea, and lead sold in the colonies |
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| What did the 3/5ths compromise determine? |
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| each slave was to count as 3/5ths of a person for seats in House of Representatives |
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| Supported the constitution |
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| System where sovereignty is vested solely in the national government. Local or regional governments in a unitary system do not have sovereignty. They have authority only to the degree that it is granted by the national government, which can also withdraw any such grant. |
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| The power of courts to decide whether a governmental institution has acted within its constitutional powers and, if not, to declare its action null and void. |
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| ____________ are elected representatives whose obligation is to act in accordance with their own consciences as to what policies are in the best interests of the public. |
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| Stated that the American people could shift their loyalties back and forth between the national and state governments in order to keep each under control. |
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| based on shared policy responsibilities rather than sharply divided ones |
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| A governmental system in which authority is divided between two sovereign levels of government: national and regional. |
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| Less restrictive than categorical. The federal government specifies the general area in which the funds must be used, but the state and local governments select the specific program. |
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| __________ is the idea that American federalism can be strengthened by a partial shift in power from the federal government to the state and local governments, more strongly believed by republicans |
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| A term that refers to the expenditure of federal funds on programs run in part through states and localities. |
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| A doctrine based on the idea that a precise separation of national power and state power is both possible and desirable. |
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