The system of government where power is shared between the central government and the state/local government.
What is federal?
The power of the high court to declare a law as unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
This is created by interest groups when they want to donate money to a candidate to help them win an election.
What is a Political Action Committee?
The form of government that is ruled by a few, usually wealthy.
What is oligarchy?
The name of the (1) LOWEST court and the (2) HIGHEST court in Florida.
What is (1) county court and (2) supreme court?
The people who were against ratifying the Constitution because it did not protect the citizens from the powerful federal government (did not have a Bill of Rights).
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
The difference between a dictatorship and an absolute monarchy.
What is dictatorship gets power by force, but monarchy inherits power?
The type of jury occurs BEFORE there is a trial, deciding if there is enough evidence to charge someone with a crime.
What is a grand jury?
Put these events in the correct number order in which they occurred: (1) Shays's Rebellion, (2)Articles of Confederation, (3) US Constitution, (4) Colonial Independence.
What is 4, 2, 1, 3?
Found in authoritarian governments, this economic system has little to no private ownership of property, the government makes all economic decisions, and citizens are obligated to work.
What is command economy (or communism)?
The landmark case that (1) made "separate but equal" the law of the land, and that (2) made "separate but equal illegal in public schools.
What is (1) Plessy v. Ferguson and (2) Brown v. Board of Education?
The right that is being violated if a person is given life in prison for running a stop light.
What is no cruel or unusual punishment?
The (1) system and (2) form of government that we have currently in the United States.
What is federal and representative democracy (or republic, or indirect democracy)?
The power to veto a bill is with the ____________, and the power to override a veto is with the ___________.
What is President (executive branch), Congress (legislative branch)?
Name 3 of the groups that can suggest ideas for a bill or legislation.
What is citizen, the President, interest group, and a member of Congress?
Put the following numbers in order as found in a trial:
(1) opening statements, (2) jury instruction, (3) closing arguments, (4) deliberation and verdict, (5) jury selection, (6) witness testimony and evidence
What is 5, 1, 6, 3, 2, 4?
The state equivalent to the President; the state equivalent to Congress.
What is the governor; what is the legislature?