Quiz 1 Flashcards
When did women gain the right to vote in the US?
1920
When did young people (18-20) gain the right to vote?
1971
African Americans were only able to vote after?
1965 Voting Rights Act
15th Amendment states?
That people will cannot be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or previous conditions of servitude. (1870 Civil War)
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) of 1961 aimed to?
End black political powerlessness in the Deep South
A system of government in which the people rule, rule by the many
Democracy
Rule by the few, a minority holds power over a majoritiy
Oligarchy
Rule by the one, such as where power rests in the hands of a king.
Monarchy
Policies are decided by the people, rather than their representatives, acting either in face to face assemblies or through the elecotral process
Direct Democracy
Indirect Democracy, in which the people rule through elected representatives
Representative Democracy
People are the ultimate source of government authority and that what the government does is determined by what the people want.
Popular Sovereignty
Describes all forms of government that are ruled by one or few in power
Autocracy
Decisions are based on what the majority of people want
Majority Rules
the idea that each person, being of equal intrinsic value as other human beings, carries the same wight in voting and other political decision making.
Political Equality.
14th Amendment says?
everyone in a democracy is treated the same by government. for example all must be entitled to benefits or protections.
Guarantees by government of equal citizenship to all social groups
Civil Rights
Basic freedoms essential to the formation and expression of majority opinion and its translation into public policies.
Political Liberty
Freedom of speech, of conscience and religion, of the press, and of assebly and association in
The 1st Amendment
The idea that government is the result of an agreement among people to form one
Social Contract
representative democracy characterized by popular sovereignty, liberty, and political equality
Liberal Democracy
Suppression o the rights and liberties of a minority by the majority
Majority Tyranny
Who and what became more increasingly supportive of civil rights claims in the mid 1960s?
President Lydon B Johnson and the Supreme Court
System of legally sanctioned racial segregation that existed in the American South
Jim Crow
Drone program run by the CIA
George W Bush
The constitution vests the power of declaring war wit congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject, and authorized such a measure
George Washington
Declaration of independence
Thomas jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin
A loose association of states or territorial units without any or much power in a central authority
Confederation
The basic framework of aw for a nation that prescribes now government is to be organized, how decision are to be made and what powers and responsibilities government shall have.
Constitution
The first constitution of the US
Articles of Confederation.
A political doctrine advocating limited government based on popular consent, protected against majority tyranny
Republicanism
The abuse of the inalienable rights of citizens of government
Tyrannty
what was created in several states to keep tabs on state legislatures and to issue instructions to legislatures concerning what bills to pass.
Conventions (assemblies)
A legislative body with a single chamber.
unicameral
Laws forbidding farm foreclosures for nonpayment of debts
stay acts
When was the new constitution written
1787
Proposal by the large states at the constitutional convention to create a strong central government with power in the government apportioned to the states on the basis of population
Virginia Plan, James Madison
[proposal of the smaller states at the constitutional convention to create a government with slightly more power in a central government than under the articles, with the states equally represented in a unicameral national legislature.
New Jersey Plan, William Patterson
Also called the Great Compromise, the compromise between the New Jersey and Virginia plans formulated by he Connecticut delegates at t he constitutional convention; called for a lower legislative house based on population size and an upper house based on equal representation of the states.
Connecticut Compromise
Describing a system in which significant governmental powers are divided between a central government and smaller territorial units, such as states.
Federal
the provision in article VI of the Constitution which states that Constitution and the laws and treaties of the US are the supreme law of the land. taking precedence over state laws and constitutions.
Supremacy Clause\
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution , also called the necessary and proper clause, gives congress te autority to make whatever laws are necessary and proper to carry out its enumerated responsibilites
Elastic clause
The first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, concerned with protecting basic liberties
Bill of Rights
Proponents of the constitution during the ratification fight; also the political party of Hamilton, Washington, and Adams
Federalists
Opponents of the Constitution during the fight over ratification
Anti Federalists
