Types of Government
A state in which the supreme power rests in
the people and their elected officials.
What is a republic?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What are the Bill or Rights?
A majority of elected officials
What is a representative majority?
As a democratic principle, political or legal parity is characterized by equal justice and an equal right to vote
What is equality?
Certain legal rules that the government must follow
to protect the rights of the accused.
What is due process?
A system in which a nation’s power is divided among national, regional, and local governments.
What is federalism?
The system used to elect the U.S. president;
each state has a number of electors equal to that
state’s representation in Congress.
What is the Electoral College?
A principle of government asserting
that a numerical majority of the electorate can
make decisions that bind the entire electorate
What is the majority rule?
Provides the ability to improve economically, educationally, and politically.
What is opportunity?
A form of government in which the people participate and have a voice in how they should be ruled.
What is a democracy?
A system in which regional governments retain supremacy while delegating a few tasks to the national government
What is a confederate government?
A list of demands that King John of England was forced to sign in 1215; restored the feudal rights of English barons.
What is the Magna Carta?
A society in which differing opinions
and parties coexist freely
What is a plurastic society?
Having an understanding of the political ideas and institutions that shape America’s government
What is civic thinking?
A document signed by William and Mary in 1689; limited the monarchy’s power and asserted the people’s rights.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
An authoritative form of government in which the government acts without the people’s consent or input.
What is a dictatorship?
Also called pure democracy; a form of government in which the people directly affect a government’s policies and actions.
Personal and political freedom.
What is liberty?
This determines your limit of compromise.
What is "moral responsibility"?
The highest court of the judicial branch
of the nation.
What is the Supreme Court?
A form of dictatorial government in which an elite group rules.
What is an oligarchy?
Magistrates charged to protect individual rights'.
What are tribunes?
The majority of all citizens or at least
the majority of all voters who participate in
their government through free elections
What is the popular majority?
List three conditions for democracy to thrive.
What are opportunity, education, and moral responsibility?
The powers specifically given to the national government by the Constitution.
What are delegated powers?