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| A political system in which political decisions are made by officials elected by the people to serve as their representatives |
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| The use of legitimate force |
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| The right to exercise power |
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| One of the two forms of representative democracy in which political power is vested in separately elected branches of the national government |
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| An institution that has the authority to make decisions the whole society must follow |
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| The competition and other activities surrounding issues such as who will run the government and about what decisions it will make |
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| A democratic government with special guarantees of personal freedom |
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| The name given to the form of representative democracy created by the Framers of the United States Constitution |
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| A political system in which all or most citizens participate directly in making governmental decisions |
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| One of the two forms of representative democracy in which political power is vested in an elected legislative |
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| An election held within a political party to determine which of its candidates for an office will represent the party in the general election |
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| A kind of direct democracy used in some states whereby voters are asked to approve or reject the removal of an elected official before his/her term expires |
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| A Latin term meaning "after the fact" |
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| An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution |
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| A book written by Charles Beard in which he asserts that the Founders were largely motivated by the economic advantage of their class |
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| Often described as the "Father of the Constitution" |
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| A term that describes when a government has supreme authority |
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| Led a group of Ex-Revolutionary War soldiers and forcibly prevented the western Massachusetts court from sitting |
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| A doctrine that states offices will be filled by those candidates who win the most votes and that laws will be made by whichever side in a legislature has the most votes |
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| Those who opposed giving as much power to the national government as the Constitution did, favoring stronger states' rights instead |
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| A form of democracy in which leaders and representatives are selected by means of popular competitive elections |
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| Supporters of a stronger central government who advocated ratification of the Constitution and then founded a political party |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| The government charter of the states from 1781 until the Constitution of 1787 |
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| The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution |
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| The power of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government to block some acts by the other two branches |
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| A British philosopher whose ideas on civil government greatly influenced the Founders |
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| The First Amendment clause guaranteeing religious freedom |
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| The First Amendment clause prohibiting an official religion |
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| The prohibition against the use of illegally obtained evidence in court |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| A Supreme Court decision declaring segregated schools inherently unequal |
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| A Supreme Court ruling that further asserted that certain rights apply to the states |
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| A doctrine of equal pay for substantially equal work |
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| Specifically banned in the Constitution under Article 1 |
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| A constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right not to have soldiers forcibly quartered in your home |
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| A doctrine that expanded the scope of permissible evidence by holding that restriction on the right of expression must utilize the least restrictive means to achieve its ends |
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| A type of right protected by the Constitution involving the rights of citizenship, such as the right of to vote and to be free from unjust discrimination |
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| Portion of the Fourteenth Amendment stating that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property" |
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| A court-devised doctrine that if it is necessary to restrict the rights of one person to speak or publish in order to protect the rights of another, the least intrusive means should be used to achieve it |
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| A modification of the exclusionary rule allowing evidence in a trial even though it was obtained without following proper legal procedures if the police believed a defective warrant was valid when executed |
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| Article VI of the Constitution that states the laws and treaties of the federal government are the "supreme law of the land" |
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| A form of federal regulation used to reduce local control over local government service through federal grants |
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| A federal grant for a specific purpose, often with accompanying conditions and/or requiring a local match |
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| A system in which sovereignty is wholly in the hands of the national government |
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| A system in which the state governments are sovereign and the national government may do only what the states permit |
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| A system in which sovereignty is shared between the national and state governments |
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| Procedural Point of Order |
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| An opportunity for a member of Congress to object to a federal mandate costing states and cities more than $50 million |
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| The clause that stipulates that powers not delegated to the United States are reserved to the states or to the people |
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| A Supreme Court decision embodying the principle of implied powers of the national government |
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| View that the national government is supreme |
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| The doctrine espoused by Calhoun that states could hold certain national policies invalid within their boundaries |
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