Chapter 2

Question 1

Power

Answer 1

Ability to exercise control over others and get them to comply. For instance, the National Rifle Association wields power because many legislators

Question 2

Authority

Answer 2

The recognized right of an individual, group, or institution to make binding decisions for society. While some might disagree with certain Supreme

Question 3

The federalist papers

Answer 3

The Federalist is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution.

Question 4

Monarchy

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a form of government with a monarch at the head

Question 5

Constitutional Monarch

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Constitutional monarchy is a form of government in which a king or queen acts as Head of State. The ability to make and pass legislation resides with an elected Parliament, not with the Monarch.

Question 6

Dictator

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a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force.

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Oligarchy

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a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.

Question 8

Pluralism

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a condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist.

Question 9

Democracy

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a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

Question 10

Republic

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a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

Question 11

Representative Democracy

Answer 11

Representative democracy (also indirect democracy or psephocracy) is a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.

Question 12

totalitarism regime

Answer 12

absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution. the character or quality of an autocratic or authoritarian individual, group, or government: the totalitarianism of the father.

Question 13

authoritarian regime

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favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.

Question 14

constitutional government

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Constitutional government. Constitutional government is defined by the existence of a constitution—which may be a legal instrument or merely a set of fixed norms or principles generally accepted as the fundamental law of the polity—that effectively controls the exercise of political power.

Question 15

pilgrims

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a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.

Question 16

Mayflower compact

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The Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States.

Question 17

French and Indian War

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The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years’ War.

Question 18

Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.

Question 19

Natural Rights

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Rights that people supposedly have under natural law. The Declaration of Independence of the United States lists life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as natural rights.

Question 20

Social Contract Theory

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Social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live.

Question 21

Shay’s Rebellion

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An uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays, which broke out in western Massachusetts in 1786. Shays’s followers protested the foreclosures of farms for debt and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system.

Question 22

Constitutional Convention

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A constitutional convention is a gathering for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution. A general constitutional convention is called to create the first constitution of a political unit or to entirely replace an existing constitution.

Question 23

Virginia Plan

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The Virginia Plan (also known as the Randolph Plan, after its sponsor, or the Large-State Plan) was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. The plan was drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Question 24

New Jersey Plan

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The New Jersey Plan (also widely known as the Small State Plan or the Paterson Plan) was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787.

Question 25

Great Compromise

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The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman’s Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States

Question 26

Connecticut Compromise

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The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman’s Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States

Question 27

Sharing Powers

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a political arrangement in which opposing groups in a society participate in government

Question 28

Expressed Powers

Answer 28

Expressed Powers: Definition & Examples. Definition: Those powers of Congress specifically listed in the Constitution.

Question 29

Police Powers

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In United States constitutional law, police power is the capacity of the states to regulate behavior and enforce order within their territory for the betterment of the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of their inhabitants.

Question 30

Bill of Rights

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the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.

Question 31

Federalists

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an advocate or supporter of federalism.

Question 32

Anti-Federalists

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Definition. The Anti-Federalists were a group of diverse individuals that formed to oppose the ratification (passage) of the new federal Constitution in 1787.