FINAL

What term refers to a government that is based on the consent of its people?

What term refers to the ability of one entity to get another entity to do something they otherwise would not do?

What kind of government involves a dominant role of religion in the government?

What kind of government involves one sole unit, whether a person, group, or politica party, maintaining complete control over a nation, usually forcibly?

What kind of government has the people holding authority over who is elected, whether directly or through a proxy?

What term refers to the act of political decisionmaking by the people directly as opposed to their elected representatives?

What kind of democracy relies on elected representatives to make laws for them?

What term serves as a political device where measures are referred by legislature to voters for approval or disapproval?

What kind of rights are based on natural law of human society, though not granted by government? (God-given, inalienable)

What term refers to an agreement to form government and abide by its rules and laws?

If a candidate polls more votes than any other but does not receive half of the votes cast, what kind of vote is that?

What term refers to a historically-based, widely-shared belief, feeling, and value about the nature of a political system?

What term refers to the right to vote?

What term refers to the process by which individuals internalize and develop their political values, ideas, attitudes, and perceptions via the agents of socialization?

What kind of political perspective is long viewed?

What kind of political perspective is relating to public opinion?

What term refers to how human beings behave in the absence of a civil society?

What group of individuals were dissatisfied with the Church of England?

What phrase served as a rallying cry of many American colonists during the period of British rule in the 1760s and early 1770s?

What term refers to the concept that five slaves would be counted as the equivalent of three “free persons” for the purposes of taxes and representation?

What term refers to the principle that each governmental branch enjoys separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility?

What term refers to a system of limits imposed by the Constitution that gives each branch of government the limited right to change or cancel acts of other branches?

How many amendments have been, in total, ratified? Of those, how many exist within the Bill of Rights?

What is the traditional amendment process?

What kind of constitutional interpretation gives constitutional provisions broad and open-ended meanings?

What kind of constitutional interpretation limits the government to only those powes explicitly stated in the Constitution?

What group favored a stronger, centralized government?

What term refers to the act of ending a system, and within the context of American history, the system of slavery?

What amendment abolished slavery?

What amendment granted citizenship to all born or naturalized in the US, including formerly enslaved people?

What amendment granted the right to vote for men regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?

What document summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking independence?

What term, proposed by Roger Sherman of Connecticut, unites the New Jersey and Virginia plans of government?

What term refers to the concept that the President was to be chosen not by either Congress or by popular vote?

Congress is an example of what? (House + Senate)

What branch of government includes the President and their cabinent members?

What term refers to the constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body?

What term refers to the process of bringing changes against a government official for wrongdoing?

What is needed for a President to be impeached?

What term refers to the advisors of the President?

What term refers to a rule or regulation issued by the President that has the effect of a law, but is not a law?

What term refers to an agreement between the US President and another foreign leader?

How is the electoral vote of a state determined?

Which amendment states that nobody can serve as President for more than two four-year terms?

Name another title for the President

What are the elegibility requirements for Presidency?

What amendment establishes the concept that a Vice President is to become President if the President is either removed from office via resignation or death?

What term refers to the action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offense?

What term refers to the cancellation or postponement of a punishment?

What term refers to specific individual rights that cannot be taken away by government and are guaranteed by the Constitution?

What term refers to positive rights, whether political, social, or economic, conferred by the government on individuals or groups? (Also known as Equal Rights)

What document was added to the Constitution in 1791, containing the first 10 Amendments?

What amendment establishes the protection of free speech, religion, assembly, press, and petition, while maintaining that the US has no national religion?

What clause establishes that the US has no national government?

What principle of the Establishment Clause maintains that the government should have no involvement whatsoever in religious practices?

What principle of the Establishment Clause maintains that the government should be neutral to all religion, treating all religions equally?

What clause guarantees the free exercise of religion?

What kind of speech is non-spoken and usually protected by the 1st Amendment?

What term refers to the action or crime of making a false spoken statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation?

What term refers to the printing or disseminating of false statements that may harm someone?

What term refers to a document issued by a magistrate, giving an officer authorization to make an arrest, seize property, make a search, or carry a judgment into execution?

What rule states that all evidence illegally obtained by police in violation of the Bill of Rights be “excluded” from admission in a court of law, where it might assist in convicting the accused?

What law punishes someone for doing something in the past, at a time when the act was not illegal?

What rule requires officers to give detainees a warning that describes their Constitutional rights when faced with interrogation?

What constitutional protection states that those accused of a crime cannot be tried twice for the same crime?

What term refers to the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime?