United States Government Flashcards
A type of system of government where the members of the executive branch are drawn from the legislative.
Parliamentary system
Any coalition of people that attempt to sway the political process to further it’s own agenda.
Special interest group
Build around a special interest to promote a specific candidate or advance the interest of an affinity group
Special interest group
This person is the president of the senate
Vice President
The senate
Ratifies treaties with foreign government. May also try to convict or impeached officials
The separation of powers
A model of the government where political authority is distributed amount many different positions ensuring there is no single official accumulates to much power.
A political philosophy that holds that government is formed by a voluntary gathering of people who consent to be ruled over by a constitutionally limited central body.
Federalism
What is the First Amendment?
Give citizens the right to protection of religion, freedom of speech and press, freedom of assembly.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Contains the rights of US citizens
What is the Second Amendment?
The right to bear arms.
Which amendment gives the right to a fair and speedy trial?
The Fifth Amendment
Which amendment was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1857?
The 14th amendment that Black man and women in United States could not become citizens
The doctrine written in 1862 was issued by Lincoln. It freed all slaves in the rebel states. Gave civil war a new moral purpose.
Emancipation proclamation
The belief that the US had a special and Divine duty to spread over the entire North American continent.
Manifest destiny
This law and regulation stated citizens of the United States must not be denied the right to vote based on their race.
The fifteen amendment
Which amendment gave Women the right to vote.
19 th amendment
What is oligarchy?
A government that is governed by a small upper-class group the leaders are not elected by the people.
What is the Monroe doctrine?
The United States policy declared in 1823. No European nation should intervene in America’s growth and colonization in the Western Hemisphere.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
A system of government with a monarch and a parliament. The monarch (king or queen) as head of state but parliament is provided authority.
Name countries that are a constitutional monarchy.
United Kingdom. Australia, Canada, Denmark, and New Zealand.
What is the 13th amendment?
Abolishment of slavery
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld the segregation that occurred during reconstruction.
Plessy vs. furgeson
Later overturned
This body of government deals with interpretations of the constitution.
Supreme Court
This term is given to the Influential effort of the interest groups. They influence lawmakers through education efforts. Communicating the concerns and ideas of the special interest groups and they go as far as drafting legislation the lawmaker then submit to congress.
Lobbyist
Three levels and branches of the federal government?
Judicial executive and legislative
Term to describe the action of making accusations of patriotic disloyalty without evidence.
Macarthyism
First ten amendments
The original bill of rights
The ratification of the eighth amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Banned cruel and unusual punishment
When a country removes I self ( Econ, socially or militarily) from something it had previously invested.
Divestment
