Government Structure
The right to exercise supreme power and authority over a region, a group, or oneself.
*What is sovereignty?*
This action by Rosa Parks is an example of civil disobedience.
*What is refusing to give up her bus seat?*
This ideology favors the least government regulation of any kind.
*What is libertarianism?*
This document first established the principle of the rule of law.
*What is the Magna Carta?*
The most common way people become candidates for public office.
*What is self-announcement?*
An independent country in which people share a common culture.
*What is a nation-state?*
The amendment that granted women the right to vote.
*What is the Nineteenth Amendment?*
Nazism is built on the idea of racial superiority, a form of this political system.
*What is fascism?*
The document that declared the colonies' independence from Britain.
*What is the Declaration of Independence?*
This term refers to the process by which people form their political attitudes.
*What is political socialization?*
The principle that no single branch of government is more powerful than the others.
*What are checks and balances?*
The Supreme Court decision that declared segregation unconstitutional.
*What is Brown v. Board of Education?*
This term refers to the framework of shared values and beliefs in a society.
*What is political culture?*
This document outlines the structure of the U.S. government and its powers.
*What is the Constitution?*
The act of drawing legislative district boundaries to give one group an advantage.
*What is gerrymandering?*
The power to impeach officials belongs only to this chamber of Congress.
*What is the House of Representatives?*
The act that aimed to end discrimination in public places and employment.
*What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?*
The political party that has existed the longest in the U.S.
Democrats
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
*What are the Bill of Rights?*
The primary goal of political parties.
*What is to get their candidates elected?*
The clause that resolves conflicts between state and federal laws.
*What is the Supremacy Clause?*
The right to practice any religion of one's choosing is guaranteed under this amendment.
*What is the First Amendment?*
This political ideology is more likely to favor government intervention in moral issues.
*What is conservatism?*
The document that established a framework for self-governance in Plymouth Colony.
*What is the Mayflower Compact?*
The first step in the policymaking process.
*What is issue identification?*