Government Semester Exam
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- Governing powers are shared between national and local government
- federal
- Located in Artical 3 section 2
- Judicial Review
- instraments of production, distribution, and exchange are publicly owned
- socialism
- Principle which allows each branch some control over the other two branches
- Checks and Balences
- Instraments of production, distibution, and exchange are privetly owned is the basic nature of
- capitalism
- Argument against _____ is that it stifles individual ambition
- socialism
- What denies the national government the most powers?
- Constitutional silence
- The national government is a government of powers granted to it by the constitution, called
- Delegated Powers
- Profit is the motive
- capitalism
- The local governments have all the governing powers
- confederate
- The Supremacy Clause
- Artical 6
- The struggle between two or more people to become the government
- politics
- Principle most resopnsible for our basic personal freedoms
- Limited Government
- Ratification Process for the new Constitution
- Artical 7
- Governing powers contitutionally divided between the national government and the state government
- Federalism
- Repealed National Liquer Prohibition
- Amendment 21
- Federal Income Tax
- Amendment 16
- The power of the courts to determine the constitutionality of a government action
- Judicial Review
- Bill of Rights
- Amendments 1-10
- Created the Judicial Branch
- Artical 3
- Democracy is a belief in
- The individual person
- How is compition good for consumers?
- best products at the lowest prices
- Established National Liquer Prohibition
- Amendment 18
- Fair distribution of wealth is motive of
- socialism
- Competition is the lifeblood
- capitalism
- Governing powers are held by a small elite group
- Oligarchy
- Contains formal amendment procedure
- Artical 5
- A major agument against _____ is that eventually all wealth will belong to a very few people
- capitalism
- Created Specific Relations between states
- Artical 4
- Created Executive Branch
- Arcitcal 2
- Lowered voting age to 18
- Amendment 26
- Established womans sufferage
- Ammendment 19
- Abolished slavery
- Amendment 13
- Love of country
- nationalism
- Give and take process
- comprimise
- Executive branch is made up of the legislative branch
- Parlimentary
- 3/4 approval is necessary for state government to _____ a formal amendment
- ratify
- An actual change in the Constitution
- Formal amendment
- Tacit Approval
- approval by inaction or "not complaining"
- Power of national government distibuted among three branches
- Seperation of Powers
- Rule by the People
- Popular Soverighnty
- All governing powers belong to the national government
- unitary
- Methods of informal ammendment
-
* Legislative Action
* Executive Action
* Judicial Action
* Party Practices - Why has constitution been able to last so long, but remain so brief?
- Contains principles rather than details
- Executive and legislative branch are two separate groups
- presidential
- Priviledges and Immunities
- A resident of one state may not be unreasonably discriminated against by another state
- Full Faith and Credit
- Each state mush honor the legal transactions of every other state
- Agument against _____ is that certain peoeple have never had a fair chance to compete
- capitalism
- Powers the national government spell out
- Expressed powers
- Who has more control over our daily lives? National or State governments
- State governments
- The states are governments of
- reserved powers
- Who can admit a new state?
- Congress
- One person has all the power
- Autocracy
- The process of returning a suspected criminal to the state from which he fled
- Extraditioin
- Artical I, Section 8, Clause 18
-
* Elastic Clause
* Implied powers - The "Umpire of the Federal System"
- Supreme Court
- Powers belonging to the national government because it is the national government
- Inherent Powers
- An indirect representative democracy
- republic
- Democracy insists on equality of
- oppertunity and under the law
- To propose a formal amendment the national government needs
- 2/3 approval
- Governing powers beling to the people.
- Democracy
- Created Legislative Branch
- Artical 1