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| People Gave up their freedoms for the protection of a goverment through the creation of a constatution or other contract. |
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| The goverment is controled by the people |
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| Federal style of government |
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| A seperation of goverment between natinal and state goverment |
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| Two opposites Democracy is a government run by the people and a Dictatorship is a government run by one person |
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| Direct/indirect democracy |
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| direct is the officials are elected by the people directly in town hall meetings indirect is when officials are elected bu an electoral college or other form of election proses that is not popular vote |
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| three branches of government |
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Judicial-decides the constitutionality of laws and hears cases in the supreme court
legislative-creates the laws and deals with special courts
executive-enforces the laws
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| ability for all the branches to make sure no one branch has more power than the other |
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| The supreme courts ability to decide if a law is unconstitutional or constitutional the supreme courts main function set up bu marbury v. Madison |
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| Basic set up by separating the government into federal/national governments and state and local goverments |
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| Highest court in the land has the ability to review laws by the use of judicial review |
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Powers that the national government can use set up by the constitution
ie. create money, go into war, end war
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| powers used by both national and state governments |
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| powers that the national government uses that the constitution does not outline but can be implied or assumed and are deafened by the Necessary and proper Clause (elastic clause) |
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| Bicameral-two houses the house of representatives and the senate |
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| Every ten years the people are counted and the representatives are reapportioned or moved around to the states that grew in population |
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| The senate controls the budget but the tax bills and money bills start in the house it is a check and balance for the house and senate |
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| house of reps has the ability to impeach or bring charges upon the president or any government official and have them tried in the senate |
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| house representatives terms and how many |
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| every two years reelection how the house and every state has at least one representative and the number of how many is based on population |
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| senate terms and how many |
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| every two years 1/3 of the senate is up for reelection and every state has two |
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| in the senate if a senator wants to force a vote they will talk on nothing until every one else is frustrated enough to either vote or dismiss the bill |
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| drawing the boundaries to give a race an edge over another |
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| thinking of the individual person and cutting through red tape and political road blocks |
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| the law enforcer the people who create the punishments for breaking laws they also have the power to pardon someone of their crimes |
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| 4 years can be elected twice or only serve 10 years |
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Commander in chief-leader of the army
Chief executive-enforce the programs and laws that congress creates
Chief diplomat-head of foreign affairs and policy
legislative leader-recommends legislation to congress |
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| members of the government that are not elected such as post office workers |
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| must be 35 born in the us and a resident for 14 years and get 270 electoral votes in the winner take all system in the United States |
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| 1954 Brown V Board of Education |
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| Ruled that segregation was unconstitutional |
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| Republicans and Democrats |
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| links the people to the government such as political parties news and elections |
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organisation that try to convince lawmakers to create laws that help their cause
ie. NRA,NAACP,ext. |
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Radicals-extreme change (Taliban)
Liberals-want change encourage individual growth and the government needs to step in to help (Obama)
Conservative-keep it simple and keep it the way it is, "don't fix what is not broken"(George Bush) |
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13- free the slaves
14- all people born in the us are citizens no matter the skin color
15-every one can vote as long as they are male |
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Women can vote
woman suffrage |
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22-number of times president can be elected set at 2 times
26-voting age set a lowest age of 18 |
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Compensation law states that congress cannot raise or lower the pay of the president or the congress until the next term
ie. if the congress lowered Obama's pay it would not take effect until the next presidential term in 2012 |
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| this is a free slide take a break and come back in a while and finish up |
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