Gov't Test 1 Study Guide

• Everyone is a part of it
• whole population votes on issues

• - People elect representatives to make the decisions for them
• - Good because: people don’t have time for everything & people often make decisions quickly & emotionally over logically

The right to act in a specified way/ use power

The ability to do something/ get things done

• the document that created the first central government for the United States
• replaced by the Constitution in 1789

• collection of essays on the principles of gov’t
• written in defense of the Constitution in 1787 & 1788

•  pen name used when writing the Federalist Papers
• used by Framers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay

the convention in Philadelphia (1787) of representatives from each of the former Colonies, except Rhode Island, at which the constitution of the United States was framed

A preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference

meeting of party members who select the candidates to run for election

represent absent party members

generally party loyalists; chosen by a vote in each party

electors who do not vote for the candidate they originally pledged

the body of 538 people elected from the 50 states & the District of Columbia to cast the official votes that elect the president & vice president

• the practice of submitting a law to a popular vote at election time
• the law may be proposed by a voter’s initiative or by legislature

All men abroad agreed to form a society based on majority rule with the consent of the government

laws that limited the gov'ts powere

Protected individual's rights

• Broad set of ideas about representative gov't
• traced back to ancient Greece & Rome
• --Citizen participation
• --Public good
• --Civic virtue (common good above private interests)

said a republic can only survive as long as its citizens actively participate & put the good of the republic before their own needs

said gov’t must be divided between the legislative, executive, & judicial branches

• A ruler is chosen by God
• A ruler’s power stems from God  absolute power
• King is answerable ONLY to God, NOT the people
• To disagree with the king is to disagree with God

• Agreement between citizens and gov’ts
• Citizens give up individual power in exchange for services & security

• All people, by being human, possess natural rights
• A legitimate gov’t does NOT violate natural laws 
• If a gov’t commands unjust things, people don’t have to obey

required a gov’t tax stamp on all paper goods

•  Closed Boston Harbor
• Ended all forms of colonial self-rule 
• Quartered British troops in colonist’s consent

a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the abuses of authority by the British gov’t

• last ditch plea for the King to repeal all measures
• king refused & declared the colonies to be in rebellion
• the Continental Congress was now forced to function as an independent gov’t

when a candidate in an election has more votes than any other candidate

when a candidate has more than 50% of the votes

a charter agreed to by King John of England that granted nobles certain rights and restricted the king’s powers