Ideology
This 17th century English Philosopher highlights the importance of maintaining order in government in his treatise Leviathan.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This term refers to a system of government in which, in theory, the people rule, either directly or indirectly.
What is democracy?
This document declared the colonies rights to separate from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This view holds that the Constitution is an agreement among people who are citizens of both state and nation, so there is much overlap between state powers and national powers. A "Marble Cake", where national and state powers, functions, and responsibilities are mixed and mingled.
What is Cooperative Federalism?
Part of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which requires state governments to adhere to certain procedures and forbids unreasonable state government action that infringes on important substantive freedoms.
What is the Due Process Clause?
There are five concepts emphasized in the fundamental issues of what government tries to do and decides to do it. What three concepts are values pursued by the government?
What are Freedom, Order, and Equality?
These two terms refer to alternate democractic theories of goverment:
Term one refers to a view of democracy as being embodied in a decision-making process that involves universal participation, political equality, majority rule, and responsiveness.
Term two refers to a view that democracy is embodied in the substance of government policies rather than in the policymaking procedure.
What are procedural democratic theory and substantive democratic theory?
This English philosopher believed that all legitimate political authority exists to preserve citizens God-given, natural rights and is based on the consent of the governed.
Who is John Locke?
This clause in Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate commerce among the states.
What is the Commerce Clause?
A standard used by the Supreme Court in deciding whether a law or policy is to be adjudged constitutional. To pass this standard, the law or policy must be justified by a “compelling governmental interest,” must be narrowly tailored, and must be the least restrictive means for achieving that interest.
What is strict scrutiny?
This term refers to the increasing interdependence of citizens and nations across the world.
What is globalization?
This classical theory of democracy refers to in which government by the people is interpreted as government by the majority of the people.
What is the majortitarian model of democracy?
What is Shay's Rebellion?
In February 2009, this act was $787 billion economic stimulus package included new spending and tax cuts. It offered substantial direct aid to states in the form of Medicaid payments, extended unemployment benefits, schools and infrastructure spending, and other grants.
What is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act?
A law that declares an action to be criminal after it has been performed.
This terms refers to a consistent set of values and beliefs about the proper purpose and scope of government. Some examples are:
Totalitarianism, Socialism, Capitalism, and Libertarianism.
What is Political Ideology?
This term refers to the view that a small group of people actually make most of the important government decisions.
What is elite theory?
This plan, submitted by the Connecticut delegation to the Constitutional Convention, called for a bicameral legislature in which the House of Representatives would be apportioned according to the population and the states would be represented equally in the Senate.
What is the Great Compromise, otherwise known as the Connecticut Compromise?
Statements concerning rights that police are required to make to a person before he or she is subjected to in-custody questioning.
What are Miranda warnings?
These individuals are willing to sacrifice freedom for both order and equality.
Who are Communitarians?
This term refers to the process of transition as a country attempts to move from an authoritarian form of government to a democratic one.
What is democratization?
What are Checks and Balances?
This is the process of redrawing boundaries for electoral or other adminstative jurisdictions to reflect changes in population.
What is redistricting?
The judicial rule that states that evidence obtained in an illegal search and seizure cannot be used in trial.
What is the exclusionary rule?