100 Word Vocab
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- Interest Group
- a group of people with common goals who oranize to influence govermetn
- Marginal Utility
- the extra usfulness gained from c0onsuming one more unit of a product
- Due Process of Law
- principle in the fifth amendment stating that the government mkus follow proper constitutuional procedures in trials and in other actions it takes against indviduals
- Judicial Review
- the poer of the Supreme Cout to declare laws and ctions oflocal, stae, or national government
- Fascism
- a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and has no tolerance for opposition
- Suffrage
- the right ot vote
- Impeachment
- a formal accusation of misconduct in office against a public official
- Consumer Price Index
- Statistic that measures overall changes in price or inflation orver time
- Nullification
- the failure or refusal of a U.S. state to aid in the enforcement of federal laws within its state limits
- Communism
- an economic system in which the central government directs all major economic decisions
- Self-Determination
- belief that people in a terrritory should have the ability to choose their own government
- Juridiction
- the authority, power, or right of a court to interpret or apply the law on certain cases
- Federalism
- asystem in which power is divided bethween the national and state governments
- Elasticity
- a measure of responsivness that tells us how a dependent variable such as qunatity resopnds to an indipendent variable such as price
- Civil Society
- A complex network of voluntary associations, economic groups, religios organizations,and many other kinds of gourps that exist independently from the government