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What is a government?

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The organization of people under authority (we have thousands of governments in America

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What is power?

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The ability to get someone to do as you want them to do.

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What is formal authority and why is it important?

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Formal authority is based in a specific government office, it is important because it helps to prevent the abuse of power.

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What are the bourgeois & the working class?

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The bourgeois are the wealthy elite, proletariats are the working class and they are the mass

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What is the pluralist theory?

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Considered to be the most plausible and most adequate

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What are federalist papers?

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

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Define an elite and elitism.

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An Elite is a small group of people who posses a disproportionate amount of some valued resource. Elitism is a leadership or rule by an elite.

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What is ratification?

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Approval from the legislative branch required to validate government agreement

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What was the idea behind the New Jersey Plan?

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Created by William Paterson, it stated that a “one house” legislature in which all states would have an equal # of votes

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What is federalism?

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Division of power between the national & state government by the constitution

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What is the Unitary System?

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The opposite of a Confederal System, it allows the central government more power

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What is the Confederal System?

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A mode of government in which a # of smaller states choose to delegate some of their policy making rights to a central body

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Why did the Constitution fail to ban slavery?

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It had no support from the Southern states

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What is “inherent power”?

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Sovereignty

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What are reserved powers?

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Found in Amendment X, the power to regulate intra state commerce

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What is the Supremacy Clause and where is it found?

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In the event of a conflict between state and federal law, federal law prevails. It is found in Article VI.

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What is Horizontal Federalism and what is it’s goal?

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Deals with the relationship between states. It’s goal is to prevent states from selling themselves apart from each other.

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What are examples of Concurrent powers?

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The power to tax, levy taxes, conduct elections, establish bankruptcy laws, and create lower courts

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What are the Articles of Confederation?

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The United States’ first constitution

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What guaranteed equal representation?

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The Articles of Confederation

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What was a significant fact about the government?

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It’s weakness

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What did the Virginia Plan propose?

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Proposed a stronger national government & a congress based on numerical representation

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What is the majority of our country?

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A Unitary System

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What does the Central Government have more power over?

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The States

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What is a project grant?

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Type of categorical grant, given by the federal government to state and local government on the basis of merit

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How many Articles of Confederation and Amendments are in the Constitution?

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7 articles and 27 amendments

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What are the Bill of Rights?

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The first 10 amendments, in them you will find our basic human rights

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Where is the right to bear arms?

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II

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Right to Assemble? (Freedom of Speech)

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I

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Public trial?

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VI

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Double Jeopardy?

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V

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Cruel and Unusual punishment?

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VIII

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Search & Seizure?

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IV

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Self incrimination?

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V

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Right of trial by Jury?

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VII

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Deny or disparage?

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IX

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Concept of federalism?

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X

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What was the goal of the American revolution?

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To gain independence from Britain

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What had to split the country the most?

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Federalism

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What is judicial review?

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Interpreting the law

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What was the first state to ratify the Constitution?

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Delaware

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