Wider Philosophies
Political system in which everyone gets a fair and equal vote
What is Democracy?
Head of the executive branch
Who is the President?
How representation in the House of Representatives is based
What is state population?
Additions to the Constitution to protect the rights of the people
What are amendments?
Protected English peasants and inspired the American Bill of Rights
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Political system where one person holds absolute power
What is a monarchy?
Succession of the president
What is President, Vice President, Speaker, Pro Tempore?
How representation in the Senate is decided
What is each state gets 2?
Number of justices on the Supreme Court
What is 9?
Limited the British royalty's power and created many important American concepts, such as due process or limited power of leaders
What is the Magna Carta?
The four characteristics of a state (name at least one)
People, territory, sovereignty, and government
Advise the president and act as heads of the executive departments
What is the role of the cabinet?
What is reapportionment?
What is the majority opinion?
What is a social contract?
Economic system where individuals and private businesses own property while working towards their own self-interest
What is capitalism?
The age required to be the president
What is 35?
Minimum age for Senators or minimum age for representatives
(name one)
What is 30 or 25?
Opinion of the judges in the minority
What is dissenting opinion?
The principles and characteristics of democracy
(Name 1-2)
What is Citizen Rule, Majority Rule/Minority rights, Individual Rights, Free & Fair Elections, Citizen Participation, and Cooperation & Compromise?
Economic system where the state/government owns/controls the economy and means of production to equally distribute resources
What is communism?
The executive departments
(Name 3-5)
What is the Treasury, State, Defense, Attorney General, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health & Human Services, Housing & Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, Education, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security?
What is standing, select, joint, and conference?
The political strategy cited in many cases brought to the Supreme Court in which elected officials redistrict areas to strategically gain the most votes, often to odd effects
What is Gerrymandering?
The creator of the philosophy on government which told of a social contract to protect the natural rights of people and separation between church and state
Who is John Locke?