AP Gov Unit 1

Question 1

Amendment Process

Answer 1

the process of altering or amending a law or document by parliamentary or constitutional procedure

Question 2

Bills of Attainder

Answer 2

is an act of a legislature declaring a person, or group of people, guilty of some crime and punishing them often without a trial

Question 3

Block Grants

Answer 3

a grant-in-aid of a specified amount from a larger government to a smaller regional government body

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Categorical Grants

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are grants issued by the United States congress which may be spent only for narrowing defined purposes

Question 5

Checks and Balances

Answer 5

counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individual groups

Question 6

Commerce Clause

Answer 6

an enumerated power listed in the United States constitution

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Concurrent

Answer 7

powers which are shared by both the federal government and the state government

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Connecticut (Great) Compromise

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Delegated Powers

Question 10

Delegations of Authority

Question 11

Denied Powers

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Devolution

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Dual Federalism

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Electoral College

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Elite Democracy

Answer 15

The theory posits that a small minority, consisting of members of the economic elite and policy-planning networks, holds the most power—and that this power is independent of democratic elections.

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Enumerated

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mention (a number of things) one by one.

Question 17

Ex Post Facto

Answer 17

having retroactive effect or force.

Question 18

Executive Powers

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The executive is the part of government that enforces law, and has responsibility for the governance of a state.

Question 19

Expressed

Answer 19

past tense: expressed; past participle: expressed

Question 20

Extradition

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the action of extraditing a person accused or convicted of a crime.

Question 21

Fiscal Federalism

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Fiscal federalism refers to how federal, state, and local governments share funding and administrative responsibilities within our federal system. The funding for these programs comes from taxes and fees.

Question 22

Formula Grants

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Full Faith and Credit

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Grassroots

Question 25

Gridlock

Question 26

Horizontal Federalism

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Hyper-Pluralism

Question 28

Impeachment and Removal

Question 29

Implied Powers

Question 30

Importation of Slaves Compromise

Question 31

Inalienable Rights

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Incorporated Powers (via Courts)

Question 33

Interstate Powers

Answer 33

Clause that gives the congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations

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Intrastate Powers

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existing or occurring within a state

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Judicial Powers

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Authority granted to courts and judges by the constitution and other laws to interpret and decide.

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Layer-Cake Federalism

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political arrangement in which power is divided between the federal and state government in clearly defined terms.

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Legislative Powers

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The authority of a branch of government that is charged with making and enacting laws.

Question 38

Limited Government

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A governing body whose power exists within the limits that are set by a constitution

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Linkage Institutions

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Majority Power

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Mandates: Funded

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Mandates: Unfunded

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Marble-Cake Federalism

Question 44

Minority Protections

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Mischiefs of Factions

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Nationalists vs Localists

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Natural Rights

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Necessary & Proper / Elastic Clause

Question 49

New Jersey (Paterson) Plan

Question 50

Participatory Democracy

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is a model of democracy in which citizens are provided power to make political decisions

Question 51

Pluralist Democracy

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a political system where there is more than one center of power, power is dispersed.

Question 52

Popular Sovereignty

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The concept that political power rests with the people who can create, alter, and abolish government.

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Privileges and Immunities

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prevents a state from treating citizens of other states in a discriminatory manner.

Question 54

Republicanism

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A philosophy of limited government with elected representatives serving at the will of the people.

Question 55

Reserved Rights

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is a statement that an individual, company, or other organization is intentionally retaining full legal rights to warn others of those rights.

Question 56

Revenue-Sharing

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Separation of Powers

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Shay's Rebellion

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Social Contract

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Supremacy Clause

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The Articles of Confederation

Answer 61

the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.

Question 62

The Philadelphia Convention

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A constitutional convention that took place in Philadelphia between May 25 to September 17, 1787 to revise the league of states.

Question 63

Three-Fifths Compromise

Answer 63

a compromise stating that 3 out of 5 slaves would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.

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Vertical Federalism

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when the federal government checks the actions (or inactions) of a state or states and vice versa in vertical manner with central government being on the top and so forth.

Question 65

Virginia (Madison) Plan

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Writs of Habeas Corpus

Question 67

Pluralist Theory