PLS 101 Chapter 1-2
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- Constitution
- Basic governing document of the United States.
- Federalism
- Division of sovereignty between at least two different levels of government.
- Second Continental Congress
- Political authority that directed the struggle for independence beginning in 1775.
- Direct Democracy
- Type of democracy in which ordinary people are the government, making all the laws themselves.
- Bill of Rights
- First Ten Amendments
- Permanent Campaign
- Condition that prevails when the next election campaign begins as soon as the last has ended and the line between electioneering and governing has disappeared.
- New Jersey Plan
- Equal Representation
- Decleration of Independence
- Document signed in 1776 declaring the United States to be a country independent of Great Britain.
- Connecticut Compromise
- Senate- equal House-Proportional
- Responsible Model
- Elections determine leaders, citizens vote retrospectively, democratic politics should produce effective governance.
- Royal Colony
- Colony governed by the king's representative with the advice of an elected assembly.
- Articles of Confederation
- The first (1781-1789) basic governing document of the United States and forerunner to the Constitution.
- Shays' Rebellion
- Uprising in western Massachusetts in 1786 led by Revolutionary War captain Daniel Shays.
- Democracy
- System in which governmental power is widely shared among the citizens, usually through free and open elections.
- 3/5ths Compromise
- Constitutional provision that counted each slave as three-fifths of a person when calculations representation in the House of Reprsentatives; repealed by the fourteenth amendment.
- Stamp Act Congress
- A meeting in 1765 of delegates from nine colonies to oppose the Stamp Act, the first political organization that brought leaders from several colonies together for a common purpose.
- Mayflower Compact
- First document in colonial America in which the people gave their expressed consent to be governed.
- Single-Issue Voter
- Voter who cares so deeply about some particular issue that a candidate's position on this one issue determines his or her vote.
- Virginia Plan
- Proportional Representation
- First Continental Congress
- The first quasi-governmental institution that spoke for nearly all the colonies (1774).
- Representative Democracy
- An indirect form of democracy in which the people choose representatives who determine what government does.
- Propietary Colony
- Colony governed either by a prominent English noble or by a company.
- Popular Model
- Elections determine policies, citizens vote prospectively, democratic politics should advance the civic education of citizens.
- Aristocracy
- Government by a few leaders made eligible by birthright.
- Oligarchy
- Government by a few who gain office by means of wealth, military power, or membership in a single political party.
- Anti-Federalism
- Those who opposed ratification of the Constitution,