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- Absolute monarchs
- Monarchs with complete and unlimited power to rule their people
- Public Opinion
- The ideas and attitudes that most people hold about elected officials, candidates, government, and political issues
- Expressed powers
- Powers that congress has that are specifically listed in the Constitution
- Interest groups
- Work at influencing the public opinion by persuading people toward their point of view
- Declaratory Act
- Passed in 1776.Stated that Parliament had the right to make and declare taxes for the American colonies in all cases
- Federal Open Market Committee
- The most powerful committee of the fed because it makes decisions that affect the economy as a whole by manipulating the money supply
- citizenship
- Belonging to a nation, owing loyalty to the government, and having protection from the government
- Human rights
- Fundamental freedoms of individuals
- dynasties
- Line of rulers from the same family
- Concurrent powers
- Powers shared by the state and federal governments
- Constitutional monarchy
- The power of the hereditary ruler is limited by the country's constitution
- Card stacking
- A technique that presents only one side of the issue, often distorting the facts
- Globalization
- Individuals and nations working across barriers of distance, culture, and technology
- 3/5 COmpromise
- Compromise between the southern and northern states, which said 5 slaves equaled 3 free people; this was used to determine representation in Congress
- Electoral votes
- Votes earned from the Electoral college
- Demand elastic
- Measure of responsiveness relating change in quantity demanded to change in price
- Bill of Rights
- The first 10 Amendments of the Constitution
- censorship
- The banning of printed materials or films due to alarming or offensive ideas
- Affirmative action
- Programs made up to help minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunity
- Factor markets
- A market where productive resources are bought and sold
- 14th Amendment
- Guarantees privileges and immunities of citizenship, due process and equal protection
- endorsements
- When a famous person supports a particular candidate
- Public policy
- a course of government action to achieve community goals
- bicameral
- Legislature consisting of two parts, or houses
- Gross Domestic Product
- Total dollar value of all final goods and services produces in a country during a single year
- Division of labor
- The breaking down of a job into separate, smaller tasks to be performed individually
- Constitutional Convention
- Meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of the new constitution
- Electoral college
- A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president
- federalism
- Form of gov in which power is divided between the federal, or national gov, and the state gov
- bandwagon
- The idea that everyone is doing something; used by political figures to pressure voters into voting for them: ex. The polls show that 80% support me
- devolution
- The surrender of powers to local authorities by a central government
- Common law
- A system of law based on precedents and customs
- Coercive acts
- Laws passed by Britain that restricted the Colonist's rights, including the right to trial by jury
- discrimination
- Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group
- Federal Communications Commission
- Makes broadcasting rules for television and radio stations
- George Washington
- The first president of the United States of America; a glorified general of the Revolutionary War
- Glittering Generality
- A statement that sounds good but is generally meaningless
- genocide
- The deliberate killing of a certain group of people
- Demand schedule
- Table showing quantities demanded at different possible prices
- Executive branch
- The branch of gov that carries out the laws
- Articles of Confederation
- The first governing document or constitution of the USA
- Discount rate
- The interest rate the Fed charges on its loans
- House of Lords
- 700 members
- economics
- The study of how individuals and nations make choices about ways to use scarce resources to fulfill their needs and wants
- Free trade
- Policy of reduced trade barriers
- capital
- Previously manufactured goods used to make other goods/services
- Direct democracy
- A form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand
- Environmental destruction
- A global issue affecting the treatment of nature because of humans
- Earned Income Tax Credits
- A program that gives tax credits and even cash payments to qualified workers
- Collective farm
- A farm in which the land is owned by the government but rented to a family
- constitution
- A detailed, written plan for government
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Economic model that compares the marginal cost and marginal benefits of a decision
- Acid rain
- Rain containing high amounts of chemical pollutants
- The great compromise
- Agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation
- aliens
- non citizens
- Exchange rate
- The price of one nations currency in terms of another nations currency
- Capitalist System
- A system in which private citizens own most, if not all, of the means of production and decide how to use them with legislated limits
- 24th amendment
- Got rid of the poll tax: this opened voting up to African Americans and poor people, who could now vote free of charge
- House of Commons
- 650 members
- apartheid
- System of laws that separated racial and ethnic groups and limited the rights of blacks in South Africa
- complements
- Products often used with other products
- Communist Party
- USA- support government ownership of factories, transportation, resources, farmland, and other businesses China- the ONLY party allowed to exist
- dictator
- A ruler who excersizes complete control over a state
- civics
- The study of rights and duties of citizens
- Civil liberties
- Freedom to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair legal treatment
- Checks and balances
- A system in which each branch of gov't is able to restrain the power of the others
- antifederalists
- Those who opposed ratification of the Constitution
- Demand curve
- Downward sloping line that graphically shows the quantities demanded at each possible price
- Consumer sovereignty
- The role of the consumer as the ruler of the market, determining what products will be produced
- competition
- The struggle that goes on between buyers and sellers to get the best products at the lowest prices
- authoritarian
- A gov't in which one leader or group holds absolute power
- lobbyists
- Representative of an interest group who contacts lawmakers or other government officials directly to influence their policy making