Govt final exam review
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- What is a democracy?
- A political community where popular soveriegnty (people rule), political equality and liberty all exist.
- What provides an appropriate beginning point to begin to understand and evaluate political system?
- Democracy
- What are the two types of Democracy?
- Direct and Indirect
- What are the characteristics of Democracy?
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1)Majority Rule (50%+1)
2)Minority Rights
3)Individual rights
4)Equality under the law - What is a plurality?
- Recieves the most votes, but is not a majority.
- What is minority rights?
- Protection from a tyrannical majority.
- What is individual rights?
- Our Civil Liberties
- Where are the individual rights found?
- Bill of Rights
- What are civil liberties?
- Our legally protected freedoms to act or not to act and to be protected from unwarranted govt intrusion.
- What is equality under the law?
- Civil Rights
- What are Civil Rights?
- Governmental responsibilities that guarantees that all citizens can participate in American Democratic life.
- What is Direct Democracy?
- We the people directly determine what the government does.
- What is Indirect Democracy?
- We the people elect candidates to represent our opinnions in the govt.
- What did Harold Laswell define politics?
- Who gets what, when and how.
- What did David Easton define politics?
- Authorative allocation of values
- What is the definition of politics?
- A moral process that attempts to reconcile social and economic differences in society.
- What is politics used for?
- It is a mechanism used to reach a compromise when there is no single acceptable solution.
- What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?
- Eliminate racial discrimination barrier on voting.
- What is a minimalist state views on collective goods?
- Too large and too inefficient and should only produce goods and services all individuals can not provide for themselves. Take a restrictive role.
- What is Jim Crow laws?
- An official law requiring segregation of races.
- What are the two types of Jim Crow laws?
- De Jure and De Facto
- What is dejure segregation?
- Official and public laws
- What is defacto segregation?
- private forms of segregation
- What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
- The most comprehensive anti discrimination legislation ever enacted by Congress to eliminate all forms of segregation in public accomdations.
- What is popular soverignty?
- Where the people rule
- What is public policy?
- the decision, commitment, and actions taken by a goverment.
- Public policy is simply?
- What the govt chooses to do or not to do
- What are purposes of Public Policy?
- Regulate, protect, encourage and assist
- What is national deficit?
- what is spent vs. what is brought in
- What is foriegn policy?
- Policy that directly impacts our relationship with other countries.
- What is domestic policy?
- Policy that directly effects individuals living in a country.
- What is national debt?
- Total outstanding amount owed including deficit
- The constitution established what five principles?
- Popular Soveriegnty, republican form of govt, limited government, separation of powers, a federal system
- Where was the constitutional convention held?
- Philadelphia
- Who was invited/attended the constitutional convention?
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74 delegates from 13 colonies
55 showed up, no more than 30 at any meeting. - Who attended every constitutional convention?
- James Madison
- What makes up the constitution?
- Pre-Amble, 7 Articles and 27 ammendments
- What is judicial review?
- Authority of court to declare legislative/executive acts unconstitutional.