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| Rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with which men are endowed by their creator. |
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| The rights that are given to citizens in a particular political community and that are regulated by the state. Ex. The right to sue in court |
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| The rights to influence government decisions in a democracy by voting for the reps. and holding office. |
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| Reasoning on the merits of public policy. |
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| A legal status that gives full membership in a political community. |
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| An obligation to contribute to deliberations about the common good. |
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| A democracy with institutions that are designed to promote the rule of reasoned and informed majorities. |
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| When the people directly make the key decisions. |
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| Where the people elect officials to make the laws and other decisions. |
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| All political powers come from the people. |
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| What are the key features of the Articles of Confederation? |
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| It was the first national government for the U.S. They were submitted by Congress to the states, stating that all 13 legislatures must concur before the new government could go into effect. They said that there should be one national government and each state should receive one vote. |
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| An uprising of mainly poor farmers in central and western Massachusetts. |
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| The plan for a strong national government. It rejected the Articles of Confederation and proposed a new government. |
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| A plan of government supported by the small states and it added new powers to regulate trade, increase revenues and allow Congress to create branches. |
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| A compromise between the large and small states that stated that population would be represented in the first branch and new legislature and equality of the states in the second. It required that bills derive in the first branch. |
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| A request by the losing side in a case to have the U.S. Supreme Court review and overturn the decisions. |
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| A high- ranked official in the department of Justice that represents the U.S. before the Supreme Court. |
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| The period in the 1900s when the Supreme Court overturned state and federal laws for interfering with the free- market economy. |
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| A law suit in which one of a few individuals are certified by the court or representing others in a similar situation. |
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| Explained how a strong, big government is better to be protected against factions than a small republic. They should be guarded against because they break the republic apart. Ways are trying to be found the control the effects of them or get rid of the causes of them. |
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| Checks and balances can be created in a government and advocates a separation of powers within the national government. |
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| Rights and freedoms that give a individual specific rights. |
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| Segregation mandated by law or official government policy. |
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| Segregation of races of ethnic groups that occur in a society even though not caused by law. |
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| A level playing field on which all can compete. |
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| The opinion that the government should concern itself with men and women of different races that have equal success. |
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| Government policies that either require special efforts to recruit minorities or women or grant preferences to minorities of women in employment, education or public contracts |
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| The Supreme Court will hear a case if at least four justices agree to do so. |
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| How is the supreme court a deliberative institution |
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| The framers wanted it to be. The court would limit itself to legal disputes and would not replace the broader policy deliberations of elected officials. |
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| 17 express powers that the constitution grants to Congress. |
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| Powers that are not given by the constitution doesn't`t mention directly by may be inferred from the enumerated powers. |
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| A division of powers in which the national government dominates from certain policy issues. |
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| A law or rule requiring states to perform functions that the federal government doesn`t supply funding for. |
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