Ch.1 How Democratic is Our System

Question 1

Democracy

Answer 1

a system of government in which the people rule:rule by the many

Question 2

Representative Democracy

Answer 2

Indirect democracy, in which the people rule through elected representatives

Question 3

Oligarchy

Answer 3

Rule by the few, where the minority holds power over a majority, as in an aristocracy or a clerical establishment

Question 4

Majority Tyranny

Answer 4

suppression of the rights and liberties of a minority by the majority

Question 5

Social Contract

Answer 5

the idea that government is the result of an agreement among people to form one, and that the people have the right to create an entirely new government if the terms of the contract have been violated by the existing one

Question 6

Political Liberty

Answer 6

the principle that citizens in a democracy are protected from government interference in the exercise of a range of basic freedoms, such as the freedoms of speech, association and conscience.

Question 7

Political Equality

Answer 7

the principle that each person carries equal weight in the conduct of the public business

Question 8

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 8

the basic principle of democracy that the people are the ultimate source of government authority and of the policies that government leaders make

Question 9

Jim Crow

Answer 9

popular term for the system of legally sanctioned racial segregation that existed in the American South until the middle of the twentieth century

Question 10

Civil Rights Act 1965

Answer 10

prohibits voting discrimination based on race