Topic 1: Foundations of Government
Humans overcame their unpleasant condition by agreeing with one another to create a state.
What is the Social Contract Theory?
The meeting where America's founding fathers went to revise the Articles of Confederation.
What was the Constitutional Convention?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Branch of government responsible for executing or enforcing laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
Foreign born resident who is not a citizen.
Who is an alien?
Government by which the power is held by a small group of people.
What is an Oligarchy?
An agreement to count each slave as three fifths of a person when determining a state's population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Amendment that lowered the voting age to 18 years of age.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Civil servants that have can have life terms in office.
Who are federal judges?
A set of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to benefit minority groups.
What is affirmative action?
His belief in the unalienable rights such as life, liberty, & property were included in the U.S. Constitution.
Who is John Locke?
The first 2 political parties in America.
Who are the Federalists and Antifederalists?
The Constitutional Amendment that granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
What is the Legislative Branch?
What is mixed economy?
This is the most basic duty & responsibility of a citizen of the United States.
What is voting?
Each branch is subject to a number of constitutional checks or restraints by the other branches
What is checks and balances?
U.S. Constitutional Amendment limiting a president to 2 terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
Drawing boundaries of an election district, giving an advantage to the party in control of the state legislature.
What is gerrymandering?
Supreme Court case that ended the Separate but Equal Doctrine.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Type of democracy inwhich a small group of people are chosen by the nations population to act as representatives.
What is indirect democracy?
Government exists only with the consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
The first Supreme Court case that established the concept of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
435 members & 100 members
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This forbids gender discrimination in any educational program and requires equal funding for both girls and boys sports.
What is Title IX ?