Origins of government
The idea that people should have a say, through representatives of their choosing, in their own government.
What is representative government?
The president's power to reject legislation.
What is the power to veto?
First vice president of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
This branch is made up of the two houses of Congress—the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The Supreme Court case that declared segregation in public schools illegal.
What Brown v. Board of Education?
The belief that government should be subject to strict limits on the lawful use of power.
What is limited government?
A system that gives each branch of government the power to change or cancel the acts of another branch.
What is a system of checks and balances?
The person who manages the everyday operations of the White House.
The President is the head of this branch.
What is the Executive Branch?
First national women's rights convention in the United States.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
A set of colonial laws that limited government and gave all free people the right to choose people to serve as judges.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
The idea that people are the ultimate source of government authority.
What is popular sovereignty?
This person created the Executive Office of the President.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This branch oversees the court system of the U.S.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
A type of English Colony that enjoyed the most independence from Great Britain.
What is a charter colony?
Any law or government action that violates a part of the constitution.
What is unconstitutional?
The organization that helps develop the federal budget.
What is the Office of Management and Budget?
The total sum of money that the federal government has borrowed and not yet repaid.
What is federal debt?
The separation of racial groups.
What is segregation?
A broad set of political ideas about representative government that traces back to ancient Greece and Rome.
What is republicanism?
The introduction to the Constitution that states the broad goal of the new government.
What is the Preamble?
The group that provides the president with expert analysis of the economy.
What is the Council of Economic Advisers?
A previous court ruling.
What is a precedent?
Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that requires all states to apply the law the same way for all people.
What is the equal protection clause?