State Characteristics
State's law of the land
What is a constitution
A government run by the people
What is a democracy
A government ruled by the people
What is a democracy
When a state has supreme and absolute power in its territory.
What is sovereignty
The constitution's introduction
What is the preamble?
The introduction of the US Constitution.
What is a preamble
Gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863
Who is Abraham Lincoln
When government power is divided between a central government and several local governments
What is a federalism
This principle asserts that the people are the source of any and all government power, and government can exist only with the consent of the governed.
What is limited government?
How many sections is the constitution divided into?
What is eight?
The number of amendments attached to our US Constition
What is 27
What is a democracy called where citizens vote for politicians to present their interests.
What is a representative democracy?
A body of people living in a defined space with the power to make and enforce laws and with an organization to do this.
What is a state
This is the principle in which the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government are three independent and coequal branches of government.
What is Separation of Powers?
Concept meaning that no one in government is above the law.
What is rule of law?
Four factors that make a state a state
What is population, territory, sovereignty, and government
What is the difference between an autocracy and oligarchy
Autocracy is a single dictatorship where an oligarchy is a dictatorship run by a few individuals.
When all power held by the government belongs to a single, central agency
What is a unitary government
The system that allows the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to check, or restrain, the actions of one another.
What is checks and balances?
The amendment that bans slavery and allows penal institutions to require convicted criminals to work.
What is the 13th amendment.
List 4 of the six roles of a state
Form a more perfect union, Insure domestic tranquility, Provide for common defense, Promote the general welfare, Secure the Blessings of Liberty,
4 ways used to classify types of governments
who can participate, relationship b/t executive and legislative branch, geographic distribution of power,
When the executive is a prime minister and their cabinet who are also members of the legislative branch
What is a parliamentary government
This principle consists of the power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a governmental action.
What is Judicial review?
Give two examples of checks and balances
President can veto an act of congress
Congress can stop a presidential nomination
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What is a union of countries called?
What is a confederation
A government headed by a king and/or queen.
What is a monarchy
the act of charging an elected official with a serious crime
What is impeachment
judicial branch's power to interpret the Constitution,
what is judicial review
President who resigned before the impeachment
process was completed
President Nixon