Comparative government
This system of government relies on all citizens voting on all matters of governance.
What is direct democracy?
In this video, he holds institutional authority.
Who is the doctor?
This branch is responsible for making and passing laws. It consists of two chambers - the House of Representatives (with 435 members who serve 2 year terms) and the Senate (with 100 members who serve six year terms). Laws must be passed in both chambers and approved by the president to become law.
What is the legislative branch?
This was an era (1945-1989) of tension between two world superpowers: The US and the Soviet Union. While the two were constantly making threats, there was no direct military conflict between the two.
What was the Cold War?
This is the process of redrawing district lines to give an advantage to a political party or specific voting bloc.
What is gerrymandering?
This system of government is defined by the ultimate authority of a single person over all aspects of government and law.
What is a dictatorship?
What is a monarchy?
In this video, he exercises power in order to enforce authority?
Who is the shock person?
This branch's main responsibility is enforcing laws and leading the nation in international affairs, including acting as Commander-in-chief of the military.
What is the executive branch?
Saudi Arabia begins jailing journalists and violating human rights. In response, the United States stops trading with them and weakens their economy, a foreign policy tool known as this.
What are economic sanctions?
This is a military alliance between the US and many Western European countries that states that an attack on one of the nations is an attack on all. Recently, Ukraine sought to join, but was denied.
What is NATO?
What is a theocracy?
This document lays out the structure of the government, including the powers of the three branches of government and checks and balances.
What is the Constitution?
This branch's main responsibility is to interpret and apply the law to specific cases.
What is the judicial branch?
This post-WWII plan sent billions of dollars in economic aid to several European nations in order to help them rebuild. The result was that they freely traded with the US and developed into strong democracies, making it a great success story for the strategy of economic aid.
What was the Marshall Plan?
This document was the first attempt at forming a government in the US, but ultimately it gave the national government too little power.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
Because the power to influence elections and political priorities is tightly tied to huge amounts of money flowing into the political system, many academics argue that America is not so much a democracy, but instead one of these.
What is a plutocracy?
This document is the first 10 amendments to the constitution, and it protects personal liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
One of this branch's checks over another branch includes the ability to refuse to sign the law, which then sends it back to the chamber from which it originated.
What is the executive branch?
The United States sought to stop communism from spreading during the Cold War. In the New Cold War, they seek to limit the influence of China, Russia, and Iran in other countries. This is a foreign policy known as this.
What is containment?
This was an era ~1450-1800 that saw many scientific, economic, and political changes. Among these changes, philosophers spread ideas about individual rights and freedom and the idea of limited government. Overall, the era was characterized by decentralized authority structures in government and economics.
What was the Enlightenment?
Many argue that the main purpose of government is to ensure that the prevailing economic system is served. In capitalism, we value continued economic growth, private ownership, and entrepreneurship. In socialism, governments work to ensure a mostly even distribution of wealth. This other economic system values centralized government control of resources and production.
What is communism?
This group was skeptical of a strong national government, preferring instead that power be with the states. However, they agreed to the Constitution on the condition that the Bill of Rights be added.
Who were the anti-Federalists?
This branch can review a laws application and declare the law to be unconstitutional, and therefore invalid.
What is the judicial branch?
This is a "race" of continuous weapons capability improvement.
What is the arms race?
Mr. Dunn has this many kids.
What is two?