Civics

Differences

Unfair treatment to a group of people

Standard behavior

The belief that one race is superior to others

People who move from one country to make a home in another

Fairness

Work that provides a service for people

The ability to say what you want, go where you want, and choose the friends you want

Offcial count of the population made every ten years

The study of the size, growth, and distribution of human populations

Government body that brings a crimal charge against the accused

Individual or group that brings a complaint against another party

Request for a higher court to review a case

Power of the supreme court to review a case

Guidelines for how similar cases should be decided in the future

Effort by judges to play an active role in making policy

Written statement explaining a decision

Party who defends against a complaint

Work by judges to avoid overturning laws

The authority to hear a case first

A court order to produce a witness or document

A legal document that charges someone with having caused harm

Legal agreements between buyers and sellers

Cases in which a court is asked to settle a dispute

An order to appear in court

The citizens themselves make the laws in this form of government

Approval

People are born with these and no government can take them away

The citizens elect representatives to make laws in this form of government

The tranditions passed down to us from generation to generation

A group of people chosen to make laws

The division of government among legislative, executive, and judicial branches

The abuse of power

A crime for which the penalty is imprisonment for more then one year, a fine, or both

Rules for society that are enforced by government

The group of lwas that help settle disagreements between people

Any behavior that is illegal

A written collection of laws

Breaking a law because it goes against personal morals

A body of law based on judges decisions

A crime for which the penalty is often a fine

Right to express one's opinions publicly

The government can take private property for a public project

People cannot be tried twice for the same crime

Accused persons get fair treatment by the government

The demonstration of love and of devotion to one's country

Anything accepted as payment for a good or service

A form of government in which all or most of the power is inherited by one individual

The amount you must pay for a good or service in market

A system for producing and distributing goods and services to fulfill people's wants

A government controlled by one person

A place where people exchangee goods or services

The process of learning how to behave politically

Most basic social institution in any society

A system in which the power is shared by all the people

A charge on certain goods such as alcoholic beverages or tobacco

Income to government from money collected for a variety of purposes

An opportunity for voters to approve or reject a law

Charges collected on goods and services

Bring charges against; Accuse an official of a serious wrongdoing

Breaking into a building to commit an illegal act

Use of violent acts to get something from the government

Betrayal of one's country by helping its enemy

A formal charge against a person accused of a crime

Agreeing to plead guilty in exchange for a lesser charge or lighter sentence

A good reason to believe that a suspect has been involved in a crime

A youth who is found guilty of a crime

Court-issued paper giving police permission to make an arrest, seizure, or search

Money that a defendant gives the court as a kind of promise to return for trial

Letting an inmate go free to serve the rest of his or her sentence outside of prison

People a member of Congress represents

Plan for raising and spending money

Agreement to end debate on a bill

Use of long speeches to prevent a vote on a bill

Law that convicts a person of a crime with no trial

Presiding officer in house of representatives

A proposed law

President prevents a bill from becoming a law by keeping it for ten days while congress is in session

Plan calling for two house legislature in which the house would have representatives based on state population and the senate would have two representatives for each state

The division of power between the states and the federal government

Opponents of the constitution

Changes

Powers shared by the federal and state government

Having two houses

System that gives each branch of government ways to limit the powers of the other two

Supporters of the constitution

Powers that the constitution neither gives to congress nor denies to the states

Counted each slave as three fifths of a person when calculating a states population

How much

An economy that is a combination of the three basic systems

The practical application of science to commerce or industry

The government of a central authority makes basic economic decisions

System in which individuals in a market economy are free to undertake economic activities with little or no government control

Measures that stop or limit trade with another nation in order to change its behavior

A foreign policy that seeks to limit or relations with other countries

The relations and communications between nations

Information about another country and what it government plans to do

A meeting in which the president talks about important issues with heads of other governments

The act of keeping a strong defense to discourage aggression by other nations

Military and economic help to other countries

Refusal to buy a product

A business owed by an individual

A person who starts a business

Stop working until employers' demands are met

The price at which a buyer and seller agree to trade

The amount of a product that producers are willing and able to offer at a different price

A type of business in which two or more people share an ownership

Organizations of workers formed to protect members' rights

Business that is serarate from its owners and legally acts as a single person

Process by which representatives of unions and businesses trying to reach agreement about wages and working conditions