Government Definitions
The means by which a society organizes itself and determines authority
What is Government?
The Articles of Confederation created a strong central government
What is false?
Under __________________, both levels of government coordinated their actions to solve national problems
What is Cooperative Federalism?
The first governing document of the United States
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Goods provided by a government that anyone can use and are free of charge
What are Public Goods?
A Form of government where voters elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf
What is Representative Democracy?
First ten amendment to the Constitution that protect individual freedoms
What is the Bill of Rights?
This imposed taxes on items such as cards, paper, and documents
What is the Stamp Act?
At the Constitutional Convention, the delegates agreed that slaves would be counted as ______ of a person for the purposes of counting population for representation.
What is three-fifths?
Goods that all people may use but there is a limited supply of goods
What are Common Goods?
Form of government in which a small group of elite people hold political power
What is an Oligarchy?
The ______ Amendment states that those powers not given to the federal government and not prohibited to the states in the Constitution are reserved for the states and people.
What is the tenth amendment?
The power of both the federal and state governments to levy taxes is an example of ____________.
What are concurrent powers?
The colonists rebelled against the imposition by the British government
What are taxes?
Supporting the actions of the Democratic Party simply because one identifies oneself as a member of that party is an example of_________
What is Partisanship?
Principle that each branch of government has the ability to oversee the powers and actions of the other branches of government.
What are checks and balances?
The agreement that citizens will consent to be governed so long as government protects their natural rights is called_______
What is The Social Contract
Federal laws that impose requirements on state and local governments without providing funding is __________
What is an unfunded mandate?
British colonists in North America in the late seventeenth century were greatly influenced by the political thought of ________
Who is John Locke?
The ideas and experiences that help form political opinion and policy
What is Political Ideology?
Under __________________, both levels of government coordinated their actions to solve national problems
What is Cooperative Federalism?
Clause ensures that judicial decrees and contracts made in one state will be honored in other states.
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
Clause empowers the federal government to regulate interstate economic transactions.
What is the Commerce Clause?
Created to present a unified opposition to Great Britain
What was the First Continental Congress?
Two actions prohibited under the Constitution are__________
What are Ex Post Facto Law and Bill of Attainder?