AP Flashcards

7254038162	Constitution	Written plan for government	0
7254038163	Judicial power	The power to decide the meaning of laws	1
7254038164	State	A group of people living in a territory with recognized borders	2
7254038165	Executive power	The power to carry out the laws	3
7254038166	Public policy	Laws and goals a government follows or pursues	4
7254038167	Legislative power	The right to make laws	5
7254038168	Democracy	Means "rule by the people"	6
7254038169	Compromise	When each side gives up some demands	7
7254038170	Majority rule	Belief that the largest group will be right more often then wrong	8
7254038171	Voting	A responsibility of a citizen	9
7254038172	Citizen	Someone with certain rights and responsibilities in a state	10
7254038173	free enterprise system	Based on private ownership and the desire for profit	11
7254038174	Politics	The process in which a society chooses its rulers	12
7254038175	Population	A characteristic of every state	13
7254038176	Establish justice	A phrase in the preamble of the constitution that means that laws should be reasonable, fair, and impartial	14
7254038177	Those who participate	A way governments are classified	15
7254038178	Representative democracy	The same as government by popular consent or indirect democracy	16
7254038179	Equal Opportunity	Equality in a democracy	17
7254038180	Democracy	Another term for free enterprise in the United States	18
7254038181	By compromise	The way differences are usually settled in a democracy	19