Casey Vocab.
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- Amnesty
- the act of granting pardon to a large group of people
- Caste System
- a set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society
- Consumer Sovereignty
- the concept that the consumer is the ruler of the market
- Bureaucracy
- gov. administrators
- imperialism
- the actions used by one nation to exercise political or economic control over smaller or weaker nation
- Lobbying
- direct conctact made by an interest group representattive in order to persuade gov. officials to support the policies their interest group favors
- Liberal
- a person who genreally believes the gov. should take an active role in the economy and in social programs but that the gov. should not dictate social behavior
- Nullification
- the failure or refusal of a U.S. state to aid in the enforcement of federal laws within its state limits
- Dictator
- an absolute ruler
- Diplomacy
- The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations without arousing hostility
- Patronage
- the practice of granting favors to reward party loyalty
- Marginal Utility
- the extra usefulness gained from consuming one more unit of a product
- Jurisdiction
- the authority, power, or right of a court to interperet or apply the law on certain cases
- Ideology
- a set of basic beliefs about life,culture.gov. and society
- Trade-off
- a tax on an imported product
- Judicial Review
- the power of the supreme court to declare laws and actions of local, state, or national gov. unconstitutional
- Feudalism
- a political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service
- Federalism
- a system in which power is divided between the national and state gov.