Am Gov Unit 3

Question 0

A government without a monarch; a government rooted in the consent of the governed, whose power is exercised by elected representatives responsible to the governed

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Republic

Question 1

The belief that the people agree to set up rulers for certain purposes and thus have the right to resist or remove rulers who act against those purposes

Answer 1

Social contract theory

Question 2

A loose association of independent states that agree to cooperate on specified manners

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Confederation

Question 3

The compact among the thirteen original states that established the first government of the United States

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Articles of Confederation

Question 4

A set of proposals for a new government, submitted to the Constitutional Convention of 1787; included separation of the government into three branches, division of the legislature into two houses, and proportional representation in the legislature

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Virginia Plan

Question 5

The law-making branch of government

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Legislative branch

Question 6

The law-enforcing branch of government

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Executive branch

Question 7

The law-interpreting branch of government

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Judicial branch

Question 8

Submitted by the head of the New Jersey delegation to the constitutional convention of 1787, a set of nine resolutions that would have, in effect, preserved the articles of confederation by amending rather than replacing them

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New Jersey Plan

Question 9

Submitted by the Connecticut delegation to the constitutional convention of 1787, and thus also known as the Connecticut compromise, a plan calling for a bicameral legislature on which the House of Representatives would be apportioned according to population and the states would be represented equally in the senate.

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Great Compromise

Question 10

A body of electors chosen by voters to cast ballots for president and Vice President

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Electoral college

Question 11

A form of government in which power resides in the people and is exercised by their elected representatives

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Republicanism

Question 12

The division of power between a central government and regional governments

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Federalism

Question 13

The assignment of law-making, law-enforcing, and law-interpreting functions to separate branches of government

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Separation of powers

Question 14

A government structure that gives each branch some scrutiny of and control over the other branches

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Checks and balances

Question 15

The powers explicitly granted to congress by the constitution

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Enumerated powers

Question 16

Gives congress the means to execute it’s enumerated powers.

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Necessary and proper clause

Question 17

Those powers that Congress needs to execute its enumerated powers

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Implied powers

Question 18

The clause that asserts that national laws take precedence over state and local laws when they conflict

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Supremacy clause

Question 19

The first 10 amendments of the Constitution that prevent the national government from tampering with fundamental rights and civil liberties and emphasize the limited character of national power

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Bill of Rights