the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.
What is government
100
established that the power of the monarchy was not absolute and guarenteed trial by jury and due process of law
What is the Magna Carta?
100
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?
100
National powers found directly within the Constitution.
What are expressed powers?
100
The principle that the government exsists and functions only with the consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
Population, Territory, Sovereignty, and Government
What is the state?
200
a legislative body composed of 2 chambers
What is bicameral?
200
a system of government in which the powers of government are divided between a central government and several local governments
What is Federalism?
200
National powers that are not expressly stated in the Constitution, but are reasonably suggested, or implied by, the expressed powers.
What are implied powers?
200
The power to collect taxes, the power to coin money, and the power to declare war.
What are expressed powers?
300
those who rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people.
What is a dictatorship?
300
Three branches of government, Bicameral legislature, and “National Executive” and “National Judiciary
What is the Virginia Plan?
300
Presidential advisorary body, traditionally made up of the executive departments and other officers, created out of custom
What is the Cabinet?
300
those powers that both the National Government and the States possess and exercise.
What are concurrent powers?
300
Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware; colonies organized by a person who the kind had made a grant of land
What are proprietary colonies?
400
supreme political authority rests with the people.
What is a democracy?
400
The Framers decided to count a slave as three-fifths of a person when determining the population of a State.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
400
a pact made by the President directly with the head of a foreign state
What is an Executive Agreement?
400
National powers that belong to the National Government because it is the government of a sovereign state within the world community.
What are inherent powers?
400
Congress was forbidden from taxing exported goods, and was not allowed to act on the slave trade for 20 years.
What is the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise?
500
All of the many goals that a government pursues in all of the many areas o fhuman affairs in which it is involved.
What is public policy?
500
Delegates agreed on a bicameral Congress, one segment with equal representation for States, and the other with representation proportionate to the States’ populations.
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
500
Group of persons chosen in each state and D.C. every four yearswho make a formal selection of the President and Vice President.
What is the Electoral College?
500
Powers of the National Government that include expressed, implied, and inherent powers.
What are delegated powers?
500
Unicameral Congress, Equal representation for States of different sizes, and More than one federal executive