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14 Cards in this Set
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What is government? What are public policies? |
Government is a institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies Public policies are things that the government decides to do |
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What are the four characteristics of a state? |
Territory, population, government and sovereignty |
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What is the difference between Confederate and federal form of government? |
Confederate places most power with the States, Federal District beats power and authority |
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What is the difference between parliamentary and presidential form of government? |
Presidential is legislative and executive equally powerful parliamentary is executive is chosen by legislature |
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What are the five basic concepts of democracy? |
worth and dignity for every person, equality, a faith in majority rule and insistence upon minority rights, compromise, individual freedom |
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What are two types of things that people are entitled to in a democracy? |
Equality of opportunity and law |
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What powers are given to Congress under the AOC? |
Declare war with other nations, right inside foreign treaties, settle disputes between states, regulate US currency, borrowing money from the states, and have direct operations of land and Naval forces |
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What are the weaknesses of the AOC? |
Lack of power given to government, gave congress the power to pass laws been on porcelain, Congress had to ask dates for men and money, each day had one vote, no president or courts, no checks and balances |
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What was the purpose of the Philadelphia Convention? what were the delegates authorized to do? |
Fix and revise the AOC which they eventually chucked and created the Constitution |
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What are the six basic principles of the Constitution? |
Popular sovereignty: people have the power, limited government: no hov is all powerful, separation of powers: three branches, checks and balances: branches can restrain another, judicial review: if an action is constitutional and federalism: central and several regional govs |
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What is an expressed, implied, and inherent power? |
Expressed or written out in the constitution for the government, implied are not stated in the Constitution but are reasonably suggested, inherent powers are national Powers historically possessed |
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Exclusive powers and concurrent powers |
Exclusive powers can only be exercised by national government alone, like coining money, treaties war, concurrent powers are both the national and State powers like taxes, Courts, crimes and punishments |
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Give examples of national, state, and concurrent powers |
National: declare war, signed treaties, coin money State: marriage laws, drinking and gambling laws, public schools Comcurrent: levy and collect taxes, define crimes and set punishments, condemn private property |
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What does the supremacy clause State about the constitution in the laws and treaties of the US? |
It is the supreme law of the land. This means the Constitution stands above all other forms of the law in the United States. |
