Intro to Government Flashcards
Civil Society
Individuals and organizations independent of the government
Articles of confederation
Our first national constitution
Socialism
Economic and Political system based on government ownership of the means by when which goods and services are produced,distributed and exchanged
Federalism
Power is shared Amon national state and local governments
Government
Institution that determines and enforces a society’s laws
Laissez-Faire
Government should play only a limited role in society (hands off)
Capitalism
American economic system also known as free enterprise or market economy
Confederation
The states unite to accomplish common goals
Social Contract Theory
The state arose out of a voluntary act of free man
Communism
Extreme form of socialism based on the writings of Karl Marx
Public Policy
decisions and laws that a government makes in a particular area of concern
James Madison
Father of the constitution
Unitary Government
Centralized government all of the power is held by the national government
Magma Carta
The Great Charter, started the idea the monarchy is not absolute
Representative Democracy
The people elect representatives to make their laws
Thomas Jefferson
Wrote most of the declaration and would say it is “pure Locke”
Dictatorship
Those who rule cannot be help responsible to the will of the people
Bi-Cameral
Two house legislature
Democracy
Supreme political power is held by the people
Boycott
Refusal to buy or sell goods
Lost Two Dictators
Hitler
Stalin
List Three Basic Concepts of Democracy
Worth of the individual
Equality of all persons
Individual Freedom
List three things that capitalism is based on
Private Ownership
Profit
Laws of supply and demand
List three things that demonstrated a change in policy of England’s limited control of the colonies
The French and Indian War
The Proclamation line
Taxing the colonists to pay for the war