chapter 1 government by the people

Question 1

what is democracy?

Answer 1

Government by the people, both directly or indirectly, with free and frequent elections

Question 2

what is direct democracy?

Answer 2

Government in which citizens vote on laws an select officials directly

Question 3

what is direct primary?

Answer 3

An election in which voters choose party nominees

Question 4

What is initiative?

Answer 4

a procedure whereby a certain number of voters may, by petition, propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters

Question 5

what is referendum?

Answer 5

A procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.

Question 6

what is recall?

Answer 6

A procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal from office before the end of their team.

Question 7

what is representative democracy?

Answer 7

Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws: also called a republic

Question 8

what is constitutional democracy?

Answer 8

Government that enforces recognized limits on those who govern and allows the voice of the people to be heard through free, fair and relatively frequent elections

Question 9

what is consitutionalism

Answer 9

is a term we apply to arrangements-checks and balances, fedralism, separation of powers, rule of law, due process , and the bill of rights

Question 10

what are natural rights?

Answer 10

the rights of all people to dignity and worth-and that government must be limited and controlled because it was a threat to those rights

Question 11

political culture?

Answer 11

to refer to the widely shared beliefs, values, and norms citizens hold about their relationship to government and to one another.

Question 12

what is Statism?

Answer 12

The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the rights of the individuals who make up the nation

Question 13

What is the American dream?

Answer 13

A complex set of ideas that holds that the united states is a land of opportunity where individual initiative and hard work bring economic succes

Question 14

what is popular consent?

Answer 14

The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs

Question 15

what is majority rule?

Answer 15

Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority

Question 16

what is majority?

Answer 16

the candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election

Question 17

what is plurality?

Answer 17

The candidate or party with the most votes cast in an election, not neccessarly more than half

Question 18

what is democratic consensus?

Answer 18

A set of widely shared attitudes and beleifs about government and its values , procedures , documents and institutions.

Question 19

what is theocracy?

Answer 19

government by religious leaders, who claim divine guidance.

Question 20

Articles of confederation?

Answer 20

The first governing document of the confederated stats, drafted in 1777 ratified in 1781 and replaced by the present constitution in 1789

Question 21

what is annapolis convention?

Answer 21

a convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation attended by five states and important because it issued the call to congress and the states for what became the constitutional convention.

Question 22

what is constitutional conventional?

Answer 22

the convention in philadelphia, fro may 25 to spetember 17, 1787 that debated and agreed on constitution of the united states.

Question 23

Shay’s Rebellion

Answer 23

A rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western massachuttes in 1786-1787 protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the constitutional convention went out.

Question 24

bicameralism?

Answer 24

The principle of two house legislature

Question 25

what is the the Virginia Plan?

Answer 25

The initial proposal at the constitutional convention made by the Virginia delegation for a strong central government with a bicameral legislature dominated by the big states.

Question 26

What is the New Jersey plan?

Answer 26

The proposal at the constitutional convention made by William Paterson of New Jersey for a central government with a single house legislature in which each state would be represented equally.

Question 27

what is the three fifths compromise?

Answer 27

The compromise between northern and southern states at the constitutional convention that three fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.

Question 28

What is Electoral College?

Answer 28

The electoral system used in electing the president and vice president in which voters vote for electors pledged to cast their ballots for a particular party’s candidates

Question 29

Who are the federalists?

Answer 29

A group that argued for ratification of the constittuion including a stronger national government at the expense of states power. They controlled the new federal government until Thomas Jefferson’s election in 1800

Question 30

who are the federalists?

Answer 30

Opponents of ratification of the constitution and of a strong central government generally