Types of Gov & Enlightenment
This type of government is controlled by a powerful legislative branch. Every two years, citizens may vote for leaders to represent them in a national legislature. This legislature makes all laws in the country.
What is an indirect parliamentary democracy
Making a public speech demanding that Congress impeach the president for corruption is protected by the _______________ Amendment
What is the First Amendment?
This governmental body
and can
What is Congress?
Each parties' presidential nominee is selected through ____________and caucuses.
What are caucuses?
This type of government might be in a small country that makes all of its laws through popular vote. When a law is proposed, all citizens have the opportunity to vote to support or oppose it.
What is a A direct democracy
These governments are similar to the federal government.
They are organized into three branches and use a system of checks and balances to ensure no branch becomes too powerful.
What are state Governments?
this governmental organization is a branch of government that
and has the power to
What is the The Supreme Court
This action is a civic responsibility but not a civic obligation before voting.
Doing research on candidates before voting in a presidential election
The Enlightenment idea that Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Is defined by Popular ___________
What is Popular sovereignty
Emergency medical services and zoning are typically handled by _____________, and not by state governments?
What are local governments?
What are City or County governments?
the principle of federalism of _______________ create distinct roles for the federal and state governments.
What is federalism
Paying taxes is a civic _________ required by your local, state, and federal governments.
civic obligation or a civic responsibility
What is a Civic Obligation?
In this Government, The political party that holds a majority in the legislature appoints one of its members to head the weaker executive branch, which enforces and administers the laws.
An indirect parliamentary democracy
What foreign policy tool is used
-to convince leaders to meet and discuss their disagreements.
and to proposes a solution to the trade dispute that both countries are willing to accept.
What is Diplomacy?
This constitutional principle reflects the Idea that state and federal governments each have different powers and responsibilities.
What is federalism?
This clause in the Fourteenth Amendment has been interpreted to mean that state governments must provide some of the protections in the Bill of Rights.
What is the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment
This excerpt from the decoration of independence
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Comes from what Enlightenment idea of Natural_________
What is "Natural rights"?
This generic term for "governmental organization" Known as The Federal _____________
and is
What is The Federal Bureaucracy
If the president vetoes a law passed by Congress, but Congress overrides the veto with a two-thirds majority vote. This is an example of how/ what
How can branches of the federal government check each other's power?
Checks and balances
the due process clauses in the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments both
protect citizens life, liberty, or property.