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| A system of rule that permits citizens to play a significant part in the government process, usually through the selection of key public officials |
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| A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community aw a whole. |
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| The System of government in which a constitution divides power between a central government and regional governments. |
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| A state governed as one single unit in which the central government is supreme and any administrative divisions exercise only power that their central government chooses to delegate. |
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| any right that exists by virtue of natural law. |
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| The division of a legislative assembly into two chambers, or houses. |
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| The division of government power among several institutions that must cooperate in decision making. |
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| A type of federalism existing since the New Deal Era, in which grangs-in-aid have been used strategically to encourage states and localities to pursue nationally defined goals. Also known as intergovernmental cooperation. |
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| The System of government that prevailed into the united States form 1989 to 1937, in which most fundamental governmental powers were shared between the federal and state governments, with the states exercising the most important powers. |
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| A union of states in which each member state retains some independent control over internal and external affairs. |
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| The institution and procedures through which a land and its people are ruled. |
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| The conflicts and struggles over the leadership, structure, and policies of government. |
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| the principle that states should oppose increase in the authority of the national government. This view was most popular before the Civil War |
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| The mechanisms through which each branch of government is able to participate in and influence the activates of the other branches |
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| an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. |
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