Government vocab

The people decide policy initiatives directly.

Founded on the rpinciple of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.

Government by a dictator.

A form o government with a monarch at the head as the sovereign head of state with ultimate authority.

Is a state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and all others only have power delegated to them

An agreement between separate bodies to cooperate with each other.

System that divides up power between a strong national govt and a smaller local govt.

Is a system of classifying different political positions upon one or more geometric asxes that symbolize indepen. politi. dimensions.

A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected reps, and which has an elected or nominated president vs. monarch.

Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics and religion.

Average in amount, intensity, quality or degree.

Open to new behavior or opinoins and willing to discard traditional values

A political party is defined as an organized group of people with at similiar political aims/opinions, seeks to influe, public policy with c

A political party having electoral strength sufficient to permit it to win control of govt usually with regularity.

A plitical party whose electoral strength is so small as to prevent its gaining control of a government except in rare and exceptional cases

A st rong supporter of a party, cause or person.

All the people ina country or area who are entitled to vote in an election.

A state may require residency as a qualifcation to vote but since

Is the requirement that a person otherwise eligible to vote register on an electoral roll before they will be entitled to vote.

Is a form of political behavior. It can explain how and why decision were made.

Is the percentage of eligivlbe voters who cast a ballot in an election.

Southtern state legisl. employed literacy tests as apart of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century.

A tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources.

A political party that has a close relationship with the executive branch of government in a manner that the party is an extension of execut

Split ticket voting refers to when a voter in an elction votes for candidates from different parties..vs. straight ticket voting

Is the practice of voting for every candidate that a political party has on a general election ballot. Choose a party...vote everyone in pa

Tired of reading. Voters cast fewer votes for offices listed toward the bottom of the ballot.

govt is restricted with reference to governming powers by limitations prescribed in laws and in a constitution

A charter of liberties to which the english barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215 at runnymede.

The formal statement written by Thomas jefferson declaring the freedom of the 13 American colonies from Great Britain.

The original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781 which was replaced by the us Constitution in 1789.

Const. defined a # of fundamental and enduring princ. separation of powers, checks and balances, Federalism,

1. worth of the individual, 2. Equality of all 3.

All legislative poer in the fovt is vested in Congress, only they can make new laws or chg existing ones.

A legislative body having two branches or chambers.

Was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. Drafted by James Madison,

Was a proposal for the structure of the US government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787.

Was an agreement that both large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convetion of 1787 def. legislative structure +state reps

h.r.-25yrs, a us citizen 7 y rs, reside in state, 2yr term sen. 30yrs, citizen for 9 yrs, reside in state,6 yr term

The smaller house in a bicameral legislature.

A form of construction which allows a judge to consider other factors when deciding the meaning of a phrase or document.

A literal interpretation of a statute or document by a court.

Those powers specifically named in the Constitution.

Powers of US govt which hav enot been explicitly granted by the Constitution but that is implied by the necessary and proper clause

Powers that Congress and the president need in order to get the job done right. Not specified, they are reasonable powers for delegated ..

Concurrent power is a political power independently exercisable by both federal and state govt in the same field of legislation.

2.Tenth Amendment reservation of political powers, not specifically granted to the federal government, to the states.

A landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the US. Maryland tried to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of US by imposing tax

The clause in US Constitution's Article VI, stating that all laws made furthering the Constitution + all treaties made under the US are supr

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