Types of Government
What is Representative Democracy and Direct Democracy?
The ability the President has to reject a law passed by the Legislative Branch.
What is Veto?
The other name for Dual Federalism.
What is Layer Cake Federalism?
The Three Branches of Government.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branch?
Secretary of DHS
Who is Kristi Noem?
The two types of Autocracy governments we covered in class.
What is a Monarchy and a Dictatorship?
Examples include public schools, libraries, police, fire departments, and programs like food assistance or healthcare support.
What is a Public Service/Social Service?
Mayor of Watsonville.
Who is Maria Orozco?
This Cabinet Department would say:
"The ICE raids are impacting local communities."
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
The length of a Supreme Court Justice.
How long is FOR LIFE?!
Our Representative for Watsonville area.
Who is Jimmy Panetta?
The difference between Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances.
Separation of Powers explains how government is split between three different branches
Checks and Balances is how the three branches are responsible to monitoring each other, making sure no one branch becomes too powerful.
WHS voting district and color
District 2
Blue
What is the President?
The Congressional District Watsonville area is part of.
What is the 19th District?
From 1948-1994, official policy in South Africa gave white people all the political power. Even though the majority of South Africans were black, non-whites could not influence government. White South Africans elected representatives to sit in a lawmaking body.
What is Oligarchy and Representative Democracy?
Example for the vocab word:
Decisions about when your trash gets picked up vs. raising the minimum wage.
What is Federalism?
The Legislative Branch in Local Government
What are City Councils?
As of today, this Supreme Court Justice has been there the longest with ____ years.
Who is Clarence Thomas (34 years)?
The total amount of months it took for the Constitution to be written.
What is 4 Months?
The difference between Direct and Representative Democracy.
Representative means electing someone in office to represent you and make the decisions for you
Direct means you are directly involved in law-making/governing process with no representative
Where Texas if currently trying to change the voting district boundaries to give one political party an unfair advantage, therefore causing California to hold a special election to maybe do the same.
What is Gerrymandering?
Where the Federal Government gives states a huge amount of money for something big like infrastructure.
What is a Block Grant?
What is three?
The year of the Constitutional Convention in Pennsylvania.
What is 1787?