Arizona Government
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- What are the four characteristics of the state?
- Population, territory, sovereignty, and government
- The articles of confederation allowed each stae _______ votes
- One
- Democracy
- Supreme political authority rests with the people
- Dictatorship
- those who rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people
- Unitary
- a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency
- Federal
- Awritten constitution divides power between central, or national, government and several regional governments
- Confederation
- joining of several groups for a common purpose
- Presidential
- exectutive, and legislative branches of the government are seperate, independent, and coequal
- Parliamentary
- executive branch is made up of the prime minister, or premier, and that officiels cabinet
- Capitalism is an _______ system, not a political system
- economic
- Federalism
- division of power among a central government and several regional governments
- Checks and Balances
- legislative, executive, and judicail branches check the actions of the others
- Veto
- Chief executives power to reject a bill passed by legislature
- seperation of powers
- executive, legislative, and judicial branches are divided equally
- Republic
- Representative of Democracy
- Social Contract theory
- government does wrong, people have ability to with hold power
- what was the purpose of the declaration of independence?
- To announce our independence and the reasons
- Who wrote the declartaion of independence?
- Thomas Jefferson
- Why was the constitution written
- to link states and people closer together
- Members of the house of representatives are determined by ______, whereas members of the senate are based on ______
- Population, Equality two per state
- the house of representatives has ____ members
- 435
- THe senate has ____ members
- 100
- the number of ____per state are determined by the number of congressional districts plus the ___ sentators
- electors, two
- Arizona has___ congressional districts, and therefore, ___ electoral votes
- 8, 10
- Winner take all
- who ever won the preference vote in a primary automatically won all the delegates chosen in the primary
- if there is no clear winner in the electoral college, the presidency is determined by who?
- House of Representatives
- The senate determines who?
- vice president
- if the vice president dies of resigns in office, the president appoints a successorwith the approval of who?
- congress
- How many electoral votes?
- 538
- what is the max amount of terms a president can serve?
- 2
- what is the max years a president can serve?
- 10
- if the president dies, resigns or is removed from office, he/she is replaced by who?
- vice president
- if the vice president is not available who becomes president?
- Speaker of the house
- if both the vice president and the speaker of the house are unavailable who then becomes president?
- president protempor of the senate
- Article one in the Constitution deals with what branch?
- Legislative
- what does the legislative branch do?
- make laws
- Article two deals with what branch?
- executive
- what does the executive branch do?
- enforces
- Article three deals with what branch?
- Judicial
- What does the judicial branch do?
- determines whether laws are constitutional- judicial review