UNIT 1: AMERICAN GOVERNMENT Flashcards
John Locke
A philosopher
Legitimate
Acceptable, reasonable, “official”
Natural Rights
Rights that everyone has for being a human. It is not written down. The rights are life, liberty, and property
State of Nature
A place without any civilization or government
Consent
Permission, approval
“The supreme law of the land”
the constitution, nothing can go against it
Concurrent Powers
Powers that both the natural government and state government have
Reserved Power
State Government
Enumerated/ Expressed Powers
National Government
Separation of Power
Breaks the Government into different groups, they are in charge of different
things
Federalism
shared government between national and the state government
Congress/ Legislative Branch
Makes Laws
President/ Executive Branch
Enforces Laws
Courts/ Judicial Branch
Interprets Laws
Wolves of Yellowstone
basically the national and state government got together to solve the fact that wolves were endangered and the federal gov.
Continuation of Wolves of Yellowstone
brought them back to (Canada?) and the people who were upset that their livestock would die, the gov. gave them $$$.
South Dakota vs. Dole
Congress tried to have all states change their legal drinking age to 21+ bc of how many car wrecks there have been. South Dakota said no<3, so congress said, then no $ for freeways . .
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South Dakota agreed
Popular Sovereignty
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the people give the gov. their power, like when it comes to voting during this up coming election, Biden 2020, VOTE BLUE
Judicial Review
Power of the court of a country to review actions
Limited Government
one bound by law to have limited control over its citizens and economy. power is divided among separate branches, each has its own power constrained by others
Checks and balances
Every branch has power over another branch so their power isn’t used unconstitutionally
Natural Rights
Rights that everyone has bc they’re human. life, liberty, property
Declaration of Independence
The first formal statement by 13 colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. (07,4,1776)
Articles of Confederation
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Basically constitution but make it 8 years later and better (1789)
Shay’s Rebellion
A rebellion that protested for debt and succeeded in shutting down the court system it took 6 months to accomplish (8,29,1786)
Revolutionary War
the war for american independence from Britain. the fight was battle of Lexington and concord in 1775 and lasted through the battle of Yorktown in 1781. (4,19,1775-9,3,1783)
