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An institution through which leaders exercise power to make and enforce laws affecting the people under its control is known as?
Government
This Plan called for each state to have one vote in Congress instead of the number of votes being based on population. It was introduced to the Constitutional Convention by William Paterson
NJ Plan
A socialist who is committed to democracy but wants government involvement in the distribution of wealth
Democratic socialist
These two presidents were impeached
Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton
An economic system combining private and public enterprise.
Mixed economy
The idea that people are chosen by god or gods rule is known as?
Divine Right
A legislature consisting of two separate chambers, each serving as a check on the other's power.
Bicameral
A written instrument from the authorities of a society granting rights or privileges
Charter
He was a French Enlightenment thinker who wrote about the importance of separating powers of government.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
An economy where the market determines prices, products, and services rather than the government
Free enterprise
A state without a government and laws is known as?
Anarchy
This plan, also known as the Great Compromise of 1787, was proposed by Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth during the Constitutional Convention at the State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 23, 1787
Connecticut Plan
Workers who produce the goods
Proletariat
This philosopher argued that people create society by entering a social contract.
Thomas Hobbes
An economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government
Command economy
A form of government with a monarch at the head
Monarchy
This Plan was a proposal to the US Constitutional Convention for a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature
Virginia Plan
A government in which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government
Representative government
This political theorist believed that property rights and other basic rights such as Freedom of Speech and religion come from people living together in a community.
Charles-Louis de Montesquieu
An economic system in which the government plays a significant role in the economy is called?
Socialism
A government that gives all key powers to the national government or central government is known as?
Unitary system
This refers to the purchase, sale or exchange of commodities, transportation of people, money or goods, and navigation of waters between different states.
Interstate Commerce
A government in which voters hold sovereign power, elected representatives, responsible to the people, exercise that power
Republic
This philosopher argued that people create society by entering a social contract. What was his name?
John Locke
What kind of economy does America have?
Free enterprise