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APAM Midterm Study Guide < 3
from congress to constitution
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civil libertiescongress
Ability to get other to do what one wants?
Power
The Right to use power?
Authority
Primary source of legitimate authority in the US?
Constitution
father of democracy?
aristotle
place of orgin for particpatory democracy?
ancient greece
allows individual power through competitive election?
representative democracy
major word excluded from the constitution?
democracy
primary form of legitimate government in the US?
Democracy
philosopher on all-powerful government?
Thomas Hobbs
philsopher with social class view of power elite?
Carl Marx
philosopher with bureaucratic view of power elite?
Max Webber
view of power elite that focuses on varied interests?
pluralist view
philosopher with views on self-interest?
Alexis de Tocqueville
principal goal of American Revolution?
liberty
basis for liberties colonists fought to protect?
natural rights
philosopher on self-preservation and government?
John Locke
Jefferson's commonly listed rights?
life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
colonists firt step after proclaiming independence?
uniformal system and drafting constitution
attempted to create a League of Friendship?
article of conferation
purpose of ths event was to revise the articles?
constitutional convention
primary author of federalists papers?
Maddison, Hamilton, Jay
event that encouraged attendance to convention?
shay's rebellion
Presiding officer at the convention?
Geore Washington
central issue in framing the constitution?
power
seats in House on Population and Senate Equal?
the great compromise
total states approving constiution in 1787?
12 states
dividing power between nation and states?
federalism
exclusive national powers?
enumerated powers
exclusive state powers?
reserved powers
powers shared by nation and state?
concurrent powers
argued the constitution was to central and strong?
anti-federalist view
added to constitution to limit national government?
bill of rights, limit of power
not outlawed by constitution for southern support?
consitution and slavery
system granting no supreme power at any level?
federal system adopted at convention
added to constitution to list explicit state power?
10th amendment
authority to states to declare a federal law void?
doctrine of nullification
transfer of federal funds to support state policy?
grants
requirements ordered by the federl government?
mandates
effort to pass the states many federal functions?
devolution
conflicts arise due to competing bill of rights?
conflicts in civil liberties
events that allw limits on civil liberties?
civil liberities at wartime
supreme court applying bill of rights to states?
19th amendment and incorporation