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CSET Civics
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1. Governments get their right to rule through the will of the people. ('Social Contract')
Socialism
Maintaining social order
Jean - Jaque Rousseau
Pure capitalism
2. Fall between liberals and conservatives
Moderates
Citizenship
Checks and balances
Nominating conventions
3. The powers that are required to carry out expressed powers - not seismically listed. This has helped strengthen and expand government powers to meet many problems the founders did not foresee.
Delegated powers implied
Citizenship
Classical foundations
Primary elections
4. How Amerricans feel about govt regarding: family - schools - peer groups - economic/social status - mass media - and govt leaders - most people are liberal - conservative or moderate - measured by meeting with interest group leaders - talking with vo
Public opinion
Devine Right Theory
Jean - Jaque Rousseau
John Locke (Father of Liberalism)
5. 'The Great Law of Peace'- Benjamin Franklin became familiar with; presented
Citizens' rights - duties - and responsibilities
Iroquois Constitution
Citizenship Rights
Key civil liberties issues
6. Citizens can be born on American soil - born to American citizens - or naturalized.
Force Theory
Delegated powers inherent
John Locke (Father of Liberalism)
Citizenship
7. Support and defend the Constitution - Participate in the democratic process - Respect and obey federal - state - and local laws - Respect the rights - beliefs - and opinions of others - Participate in your local community - Freedom to pursue 'life -
Pure capitalism
Citizenship Responsibilities
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
How interest groups work
8. Citizenship can be lost through expatriation - certain crimes - or ___________.
Providing national security
Key civil liberties issues
Denaturalization
Limited government
9. The powers that the national government may excessive simply because it is a government.
Delegated powers implied
Providing public service
Public opinion
Delegated powers inherent
10. Courts can declare laws of local - state - or national governments unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is the final authority on the interpretation of the Constitution.
Judicial review
Providing national security
Delegated powers expressed
Caucuses
11. Stated in the Constitution. Most are in the first 3 articles ; includes the por to levy/collect taxes - coin money - make was - rise an army/navy - and regulate state commerce.
Delegated powers expressed
Republicanism
Government's Responsibility
Maintaining social order
12. 1. Private ownership and control of property and economic resources 2. Free enterprise 3. Competition among businesses 4. Freedom of choice 5. The possibility of profits
Federalism
Moderates
Delegated powers expressed
Pure capitalism
13. Set apart the role of the government and the rights of the society; set - up the tone for independence; claimed independence would allow American colonists the chance to create a better society - free from tyranny - with equal social and economic opp
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14. Shaped by the size and power of government - 3 major provisions: war powers - interstate commerce regulations - and the power to tax and spend. In politics - federalism lessens the risk for 1 political party monopolizing power with elections. It also
Citizenship Participation
Developing Federalism
Socialism
Rights of the Individual in the Economy
15. Party members select people to run in the general election (most common)
1st Amendment
Key civil liberties issues
Primary elections
Force Theory
16. Sought via: Caucuses - Nominating conventions - primary elections - petitions (candidate is placed on ballot if # of voters sign a petition)
Party nominations
Challenges for civil liberties
Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense'
1st Amendment
17. Rights to an acceptable standard of living - freedom of human activity to seek such standards - freedom to hold private property - freedom to participate in private enterprises and gain profits.
Classical foundations
1st Amendment
Rights of the Individual in the Economy
Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense'
18. Govt owns the basic means of production - using resources - distributing products and wages - education - health care and welfare. It's 3 goals: 1. Distribution of wealth and equal economic opportunity 2. Society's control via govt of production 3. P
Adams Smith: 'Wealth of Nations'
Citizenship
Challenges for civil liberties
Socialism
19. Official public meeting of political parties
Citizens' rights - duties - and responsibilities
Popular sovereignty
Nominating conventions
Delegated powers implied
20. Some believe the state evolved from the family. The head of the primitive family was the authority that served as government.
Major Political Theorists: Evolutionary Theory
Function of political parties
Democracy
Libertarians
21. Rule by the people; government based on consent and authority of the people.
Popular sovereignty
Delegated powers expressed
Citizenship Participation
Baron De Montesquieu
22. Philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) wrote that in the natural state - no government existed - by contract people surrender to the satiate to maintain order - Then - John Locke wrote people are naturally endowed with the right to life - liberty and
Social Contract Theory
Checks and balances
Major Political Theorists: Evolutionary Theory
Citizenship
23. Government emerged when all people of an area were brought under the authority of one person or group
Citizenship Participation
Iroquois Constitution
Delegated powers expressed
Force Theory
24. Support both economic and social freedoms - free markets and unrestricted speech
Libertarians
Primary elections
Interest groups
Adams Smith: 'Wealth of Nations'
25. John Locke (1632-1704) explained the Social contract theory in 1690 Two Treatises Government - It says people need government to maintain social order by providing ways of solving conflicts since they have power to make and enforce laws.
Maintaining social order
Federalism
How interest groups work
Pure capitalism
26. People have a right to dispose the government which does not protect their rights and property. (Directly influenced creating the US government system)
John Locke (Father of Liberalism)
Nominating conventions
Socialism
Judicial review
27. Changing ideas - social conditions - and technology.
Republicanism
Challenges for civil liberties
Citizenship Rights
How interest groups work
28. German socialist advocating violent revolution; believed industrialized nations are divided into capitalists (bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat) in The Communist Manifesto - he wrote that all economic events would lead to Communism.
Moderates
Making economic decisions
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Socialism
29. 1. To maintain social order 2. Provide public services 3. Provide national security and defense 4. Provide for and control economic system 5. Government has authority to require individuals to obey laws and punish if they don't.
Moderates
Political theory: Purpose of government
Denaturalization
Classical foundations
30. Liberal Republican Principles: 1) Government rules through the consensus of the people - 2) Gov't's responsibility to protect and promote the rights and freedoms of the people - 3) Gov't has no right to limit human freedom in order to preserve itself
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31. Power is divided between national and state governments. Both pass laws and directly affect citizens
Popular sovereignty
Socialism
Federalism
Delegated powers inherent
32. A group of people that share goals and organize to influence the government. Major groups: business/labor groups - environmental groups - public - interest groups - govt groups - professional associations.
Rights of the Individual in the Economy
Republicanism
John Locke (Father of Liberalism)
Interest groups
33. Obeying the law - voting - paying taxes - staying informed - respecting rights and property) to the U.S. govt and the govt secures citizens rights and equality under the law.
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34. 1 - 2 or multi - party systems; several parties often combine to form a coalition government
Republicanism
Delegated powers implied
Political Parties
How interest groups work
35. Recruiting candidates for public office - educating public - running/staffing government - rewarding party loyalists with favors - watching party in power - encouraging compromise.
Public opinion
Party nominations
Function of political parties
Citizenship Rights
36. 3 separate branches of the government to check each others' powers.
Citizenship Participation
Political theory: Purpose of government
Baron De Montesquieu
Checks and balances
37. Government should protect people against attacks from other states and threats like terrorism. Also govt should handle relations with other countries.
Iroquois Constitution
Providing national security
1st Amendment
Nominating conventions
38. Individuals agree to abide by the state law: A citizen of state agrees to the enforcement of the law of that state; individual transfers part of their responsibility to the collective governing body - Mechanisms for devising new laws and changing old
Citizenship Participation
Party nominations
Baron De Montesquieu
Classical foundations
39. Legislative: makes the law - Article 1- section 8 Executive: carries out acts of congress - article 2 grants president broad but vague powers Judicial: Interprets the law - Article 3 establishes the Supreme Court
Political theory: Purpose of government
Separation of powers
Democracy
Citizenship Responsibilities
40. An individual - by pursuing his own interest - promotes the interests of the society - free - market competition causes healthy competition - better products - and lower prices; Against excessive wealth build - up by 'businessmen' and warns the forma
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41. Advocating the rights of thhe individuals to make decisions as part of a colletive act.
How interest groups work
Checks and balances
Rights of the Individual in the Economy
Democracy
42. The system of selecting a government through means other than hereditary rights - i.e. elections.
Checks and balances
Republicanism
Libertarians
Nominating conventions
43. Right of the individual to hold private property and gain profits.
Checks and balances
Capitalism
Public opinion
Citizenship
44. Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: Francis Bacon - Empiricism: 'Knowledge via sense experience': natural laws are not dependent on devine laws. Decartes: cognito - ergo Sum (I think - therefore I am') Voltaire: vocal opponent of religion's
How interest groups work
Citizens' rights - duties - and responsibilities
Classical foundations
Democracy
45. Freedom of....Religion: Establishment clause prevents congress from creating a state - sponsored religion. Free excessive clause prevents government from impending the religious beliefs of Americans. Speech: pure and symbolic speech are protected - b
Major Political Theorists: Evolutionary Theory
Nominating conventions
Citizenship
1st Amendment
46. Abraham Lincoln in 1854 says a government should do for a community whatever they need for general welfare
Citizens' rights - duties - and responsibilities
Capitalism
Providing public service
Popular sovereignty
47. The Constitution limits powers of government. The first 10 amendments set limits on freedom of expression - personal security - and fair trials.
Citizens' rights - duties - and responsibilities
Limited government
Nominating conventions
How interest groups work
48. Affirmative action - discrimination against women - right to know about govt actions - privacy - and the fight against terrorism.
Separation of powers
Devine Right Theory
Key civil liberties issues
Citizenship Rights
49. Freedom to express yourself and worship as desired - Right to a prompt - fair trial by jury - Right to vote in elections for public officials - Right to apply for federal employment - Right to run for elected office
Function of political parties
Citizenship Rights
Adams Smith: 'Wealth of Nations'
Separation of powers
50. Governments reduce conflicts like material scarcity - intervene in domestic and other nations' economic affairs - pass laws shaping the economic environment - and distribute benefits among citizens.
Classical foundations
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Judicial review
Making economic decisions