AP Government Tinoco Flashcards

6973869509	Conservative	Status Quo, the way things are, less Government involvement	0
6973869510	Moderate	Middle of Conservative and Liberal	1
6973869511	Liberal	Promote Social change with more Government involvement	2
6973869512	Radical	Resorts to extreme methods to bring about change.	3
6973869513	Political Spectrum	Tool used to visually compare different political positions by placing them on one or more axis.	4
6973869516	Parliamentary Government	Executive are members of the legislative branch	5
6973869517	Presidential Governemt	Separates Power between executive/legislative	6
6973869519	Representative Democracy	People represented through elected officials.	7
6973869520	Sovereign State	Body of people living in a defined territory, having power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority.	8
6973913380	Sovereignty	Absolute power to rule	9
6973869521	Monarchy	Power in the hands of royalty	10
6973869522	Dictatorship	Ruled by a single leader not elected.	11
6973869523	Military Dictatorship	Army is in control	12
6973869524	Theocracy	Religious based Government	13
6973869525	Public Policies	All laws and mandates government decides to do in the interest of protecting its people and proper function of government	14
6973869529	Divine Right Theory	State created by God and those of royal birth have a divine right to rule.	15
6973869531	Social Contract Theory	People give up some rights in order to be ruled and protected by government	16
6973869532	Confederate	An alliance of independent states	17
6973869533	Federal	Power is divided between a central gov't and several local gov't.	18
6973869534	State of Nature	Thomas Hobbes- Humans in constant state of war and strife	19
6973869535	Unitary System of Government	All power belongs to one level of government	20
6973869537	Politics	Activities related to governance and its parties of a country	21
6973869538	Democracy	Government elected by the people. Determine either directly or through elected Reps.	22
6973869539	Direct Democracy	People vote Directly on every issue	23
6973869540	Democrats	Generally liberal	24
6973869541	Republicans	Generally Conservatives	25
6973869558	Two- Party System	A system where two major political parties dominate politics within a government	26
6973869559	Third party	Any political party that is not one of the two major parties in a two-party system	27
6973869570	Second Continental Congress	In 1775, each of the 13 colonies sent representatives to this gathering in Philadelphia. The Second Continental Congress served as the first government of the United States from 1776 to 1781.	28
6973869571	Declaration of Independence	July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. Between 1776 and 1777, most of the States adopted constitutions instead of charters.	29
6973869573	Popular Sovereignty	The people hold power and the people are sovereign.	30
6973997021	Consent of the Governed	Government only has power if its people agree to be governed	31
6973869574	Limited Government	Little to no interference of government in daily life, business	32
6973869576	Separation of Powers	Government divided into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial.	33
6974022439	Checks and Balances	Each branch's power checks (restrain the actions of) the other branches of the government.	34
6973869577	Articles of Confederation	Approved November 15, 1777 Est. "a firm league of friendship" between the states Needed the ratification of the 13 states March 1, 1781 Second Continental Congress declared the Articles effective	35
6973869578	Structure of Constitution	3 parts; the preamble, the articles(7), and the amendments (27)	36
6973869579	The Preamble	Intro, explains purpose of Constitution and purpose of government	37
6973869580	Article I	establishes legislative branch	38
6973869581	Article II	creates an executive branch	39
6973869582	Article III	creates judicial branch	40
6973869583	Article IV	explains the relationship of the states to one another and to the national government	41
6973869584	Article V	how the Constitution can be amended	42
6973869585	Article VI	Supremacy clause	43
6973869586	Article VII	Says that 9 states are needed to ratify the Constitution	44
6974039266	Supremacy clause	Federal law shall be the "supreme law of the land" over state and local law	45
6973869672	Bill of Rights	First ten amendments to the US Constitution	46
6973869591	Popular Vote	the popular vote winner may not win the electoral college; for example: small-state bias caused by each state getting at least three electoral votes regardless of its size	47
6973869594	Three-Fifths Compromise	All "free persons" will be counted; 3/5 of all other persons Southerners could count slaves but had to pay taxes on them	48
6973869595	Judicial Review	power of courts to say that laws and actions of govt are invalid bc they conflict w the constitution's principles	49
6973869599	Constitutional Convention	Mid-February of 1787 meeting of all thirteen States, which eventually became the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.	50
6973869668	Federalist	a person who advocates or supports a system of government in which several states unite under a central authority	51
6973869669	Anti-federalist	somebody who opposed the U.S. Constitution when it was being drawn up	52
10096926978	Free Rider Problem	Nonparticipants receive benefits from other's efforts	53
10097191305	(Special) Interest Groups	Group of people with shared concern over political issue that raise money for campaign donations to favored candidates and lobby to influence public policy	54
10097231304	Political Action Committee (PAC, SuperPAC)	an organization that raises money privately to influence elections or legislation, especially at the federal level	55
10097277680	Lobbying	seek to influence (a politician or public official) on an issue	56