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1
Unit 1 Terms
  • Politics - The effort to control or influence the
    conduct and policies of government
  • Anarchy - The absence of government political
    disorder
  • Ratify - To approve, or to sign into law

2
Unit 1 Terms
  • Preamble - The part of the Constitution that
    tells why the government was created in the way
    it was
  • Embargo - Prohibiting trade with another nation
  • Revenue - Money collected by the government
  • Articles - The part of the Constitution that
    tells how our government is composed and how it
    functions
  • Bicameral - A legislature made up of two houses
  • Unicameral - A legislature made up of one house

3
Unit 1 Terms
  • Consensus agreement about basic beliefs
  • Social Contract theory that by contract, people
    surrender to the state, the power needed to
    maintain order, and the state, in turn, agrees to
    protect its people
  • Thomas Jefferson - primary author of the
    Declaration of Independence
  • James Madison primary author of the Constitution

4
Unit 1 Terms
  • Constitutional Law involves the interpretation
    and application of the constitution
  • Command Economy closely related to Socialism

5
4 Purposes of Government
  • Maintain social order
  • Provide public services
  • National defense
  • Make economic decisions

6
  • Democracy
  • free elections with competing political parties
  • Individual liberty
  • Autocracy
  • - totalitarian dictatorship
  • - examplesHitler, Mussolini, Stalin

7
  • Capitalism
  • - free enterprise
  • - private ownership and control of property and
    economic resources
  • - competition among businesses
  • Socialism
  • - distribution of wealth equally
  • - public ownership of most land, factories, and
    other means of production
  • - government provides public services

8
  • Communism
  • - state owned land, natural resources, industry,
    banks, and transportation facilities state
    controlled mass media
  • John Locke wrote the textbook of the American
    Revolution
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