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An economic system in which production and property are privately owned with a minimum of government interference.
What is capitalism?
A political groups supports property rights and opposes attempts to regulate personal behavior and moral values
Who are conservatives?
Constitution vests all judicial authority of the United States, along with other inferior courts in this.
What is the Supreme Court?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
Best describes the transfer of political values.
What is likely to occur from parents to children?
What is an economic system in which society is ruled by a small number of people who exercise power to further the public interest?
Group favors government efforts to increase equality, impose higher taxes on the wealthy, and provide more support for those in need.
Who are liberals?
Two or more governments share power and authority over the same land and people.
What is federalism?
The institution that settles conflicts related to power sharing between the states and the national government.
What is the Supreme Court?
This Describes political trust over the past fifty years.
What is declined?
Power is channeled into these three branches of the government
What are the legislative, judicial, executive branches?
Authored the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The U.S. system balances power among branches by enabling one branch to counter the actions of another through this.
What is checks and balances?
The notification that police must give a person being arrested that they have a right to remain silent and a right to legal counsel.
What are miranda rights?
This amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th amendment?
A republic is a form of government derives its power from these.
Who are the citizens, but their representatives make policy and govern?
This justified the colonists' revolt against Great Britain.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
This provides for the protection of individual liberties from the national government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This included the Largest-scale emergency antipoverty programs, ever.
What is President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal?
Laws that were enacted by southern white people in the late nineteenth century to establish segregation policies
What are Jim Crow laws?
The type of government best describes that of the United States
What is a republic?
This clause granted extra representation to states based on the number of those they enslaved.
What is the three-fifths compromise?
The Civil War amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished this.
What is slavery?
The right to vote shall not be abridged on account of race can be found in which amendment?
What is the 15th amendment?
To whom do most modern democracies give the power to make laws.
This body selects the President of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?
The system of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between the national and state governments
What is federalism?
This constitutional amendment prohibits the states from denying any person "equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
The amount to which people believe their actions affect the course of government.
What is efficacy?