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| A system of government that gives the power to the people, whether directly or through elected offcials. |
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| A form of governemt where power is vested in hereditary kings and queens |
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| A form of governement in which poer resides in a leader who rules according to self interest and without regards to individual rights and liberites. |
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| A form of govenrment in which the right to participate is conditioned the posession of wealth, social status, millitary position or achievement. |
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| The belief that people are free and equal by natural right, this in turns requires that all people give their consent to be govenred. espoused by John Locke. |
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| A government rooted in the consent of the governed. A representative of indirect democracy |
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| the central premise of DIRECT DEMOCRACY is- which only policies that collectively garner the support of a majority of voters will be made into law |
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| The principle that government must draw thier powers from the ocnsent of the governed. |
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| an economic thoery designed to increase a nations wealth through the development of comercial industry and a favorable balance of trade. |
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| Type of government where where the national gov derives powers from the states , aleagu of independent states. |
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| The Final decision of the constitutional Convention to create a two house legislature with the lower house elected by the people and with the powers divided between the tow houses. Also made national law supreme. |
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| Mandates that national law is supreme to all other laws passes by the states or any other subdivision of government. |
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| full faith and credit clause |
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| provision of the constituiton that mandates states to honor the laws and judicial proceedings of other states. |
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| set the precedent that federal courts had the power to nullify acts of the nations government when it was determined to be in conflict with the constitution.(judicial review) |
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| clauses contained in the fith and fourteenth amendment. Gurantees to individuals a variety of rights |
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| The first clause in the first ammendment; it prohibits the national government from establishing a national religeon. |
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| The second clause of the first ammendment: it prohibits the us gov from interfering with a citizens right to practice religeon |
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| A judicial doctrine whereby most but not all of the of the protections found in the bill of rights are made applicable to the staes via the fourteenth ammendment. |
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| constitutional doctrine that prevents the gov from prohibiting speach or publication before the fact. violation of the first ammendment. |
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| Enacted by John adams, made any slanderous false writing against the united States a criminal offense |
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| States authority to regulate speech greatlt reduced after this court case. |
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| test used to determine between protected and unprotected speech. Congress has the right to prevent words that will bring about substantive evils. |
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| Test articulated by the Supreme court in Brandenburg vs. ohio that holds that advocacy of illegal action is protected by the first ammendment unless directly inciting lawlessness |
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