Mid Term Review Organizer
Political Systems Vocabulary
Influences on Founders
Compromise has 2 Meanings
The Constitution
Supreme Court Cases
Extending Citizenship and Voting Rights
Influences on Founders
Compromise has 2 Meanings
The Constitution
Supreme Court Cases
Extending Citizenship and Voting Rights
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- What is the process of creating laws?
- A bill must gain a majority vote in both the house and congress before it goes to the president for approval.(If pres. says yes it is a law, if pres. says no the bill must go back to the congrees botes on it again and with 2/3 of the members of each house must approve it to become a law.
- Amendment 8
- Can't find for something stupid.
- Great Compromise
- The plan agreed to during the writing of the Constitution that created the House of Representatives, in which each state was given votes based on its population and the Senate in which each state was given equal votes.
- Amendment 16
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- Amendment 1
- Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Press,Freedom of Petition
- Montesquieu
- Government should be divided into three branches. Legislative, Judicial,Executive.
- Executive Branch:members,powers
- The branch of government responsible for executing or enforcing the laws.
- English Bill of Rights
- Everyone must obey laws even the government leaders. Citizens have the right to trial by a jury. Citizens have the right to make a formal petition to the government.
- Amendment 18
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- What are pure democracies?
- Allow all citizens to meet to make laws. (demos--> people & kratos--> rule)
- What is a political system?
- A political system is a special way that the nation governs itself.
- Amendment 9
- Unenumerated rights.
- 3/5
- Counted each slave as three-fifths of a person when a state's population was calculated.
- The Preamble
- We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
- Greece
- Direct democracy a form of government in which laws are made directly to citizens.
- Amendment 7
- if worth more than $20 than you can have a trial.
- Slavery
- Between the North and the South.
- Amendment 17
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- Reasons for need
- With no power to tax or to enforce laws, Congress seemed unable to deal with the country's debts or to settle disputes between states.
- John Locke
- Government exist for the people;people do not exist for the government. The purpose of the government is to protect the natural rights of life,liberty and property.
- Federalists vs.Anti federalists
- Federalists--> people who supported ratification of the Constitution vecause they supported a strong federal,or national government. Anti- Federalist--> people who opposed the ratification of the Constitution because they feared that a strong central government would endanger people's liberties.
- Magna Carta
- The power of the highest leaders( in this case a monarch- is limited)
- Amendment 10
- Protects and allows the state government poss any of the powers that are not prohibited by the constitution
- Rome
- Founded a republic,a government in which representatices were eleceted to make laws.
- Amendment 6
- Trial Timing; right to a speedy trial
- What is an democracy?
- When citizens are given a voice in government. (these types of gov.ts guarantee citizens rights with written constitutions which place limitations on power of the government)
- Judicial Branch
- the branch of government that decides the meaning of laws.
- Plessy vs. Fergusson
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- Legislative Branch:members,powers
- Congress is divided into two houses: The House of Representatives, and the Senate. The Legislative Branch makes the laws.
- Amendment 14
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- Brown vs. Board
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- Amendment 15
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- Amendment 4
- Searches and Seizures
- Electoral College
- The electoral college hase 538 electorals each with one vote. Electorals--> people who promise to vote for candidates selected by voters.
- What is an absolute monarchy?
- A monarchy is ruled by a king or a queen. (power is passed down from generation to generation within a single family,usually from father to son)
- Amendment 5
- Pleading the 5th --> not having to say anything during the trial
- What are theocracies?
- Nations led by religios leaders.
- Amendment 2
- Right to Bear Arms
- What is a totalitarian government?
- This type of government, limits and restricts citizens rights. Totalitarian gov.t also makes the laws. Example: Modern Day China
- What are dictatorships?
- Dictatorships are ruled by one person. Example: Adolf Hitler,Saddam Hussein
- What is an constitutional monarchy?
- A king or queen still exists but their power is limited by a constitution.
- Checks and Balances
- gives each branch of government ways to limit the powers of the other two.
- Amendment 3
- Quartering of Troops
- What are republics?
- Citizens elect officals who make decisions for the nation (United States is a republic)
- Who was Dred Scott?
- Dred Scott had traveled with his slaveholder to Illinois and the Wisconsin territory where slavery was illegal. Scott argured that his residence in a free territory made him a free person.