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CSET Civics
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1. Lobbying lawmakers - running publicity campaigns - providing $ for candidates' election campaigns
Pure capitalism
Providing national security
How interest groups work
Citizens' rights - duties - and responsibilities
2. The Constitution limits powers of government. The first 10 amendments set limits on freedom of expression - personal security - and fair trials.
Citizenship Rights
Limited government
Socialism
Providing public service
3. Advocating the rights of thhe individuals to make decisions as part of a colletive act.
Moderates
Democracy
Party nominations
Public opinion
4. Right of the individual to hold private property and gain profits.
Republicanism
Democracy
Pure capitalism
Capitalism
5. 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.
Citizens' rights - duties - and responsibilities
Rights of the Individual in the Economy
Citizenship Responsibilities
Force Theory
6. 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
How interest groups work
Checks and balances
Citizenship Rights
Moderates
7. Rule by the people; government based on consent and authority of the people.
Rights of the Individual in the Economy
Popular sovereignty
Limited government
Citizenship Rights
8. The system of selecting a government through means other than hereditary rights - i.e. elections.
Moderates
Socialism
Republicanism
Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense'
9. 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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10. 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
Major Political Theorists: Evolutionary Theory
Interest groups
Republicanism
11. 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.
Interest groups
Public opinion
1st Amendment
Party nominations
12. 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
Party nominations
Citizenship
Key civil liberties issues
13. Citizens can be born on American soil - born to American citizens - or naturalized.
Providing public service
Citizenship Rights
Citizenship
Key civil liberties issues
14. 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.
Jean - Jaque Rousseau
Nominating conventions
Republicanism
Delegated powers implied
15. Recruiting candidates for public office - educating public - running/staffing government - rewarding party loyalists with favors - watching party in power - encouraging compromise.
Classical foundations
Function of political parties
Devine Right Theory
Checks and balances
16. The notion that God or Gods had chosen certain people to rule by devine right - such as those born into royalty. They believed the state was created by God.
Limited government
Checks and balances
Jean - Jaque Rousseau
Devine Right Theory
17. 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.
Government's Responsibility
Iroquois Constitution
Political theory: Purpose of government
Popular sovereignty
18. Party members select people to run in the general election (most common)
Primary elections
Adams Smith: 'Wealth of Nations'
Pure capitalism
Checks and balances
19. 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.
Judicial review
Social Contract Theory
Maintaining social order
Party nominations
20. 3 separate branches of the government to check each others' powers.
Pure capitalism
Baron De Montesquieu
Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense'
Socialism
21. 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
Popular sovereignty
Checks and balances
Classical foundations
Citizenship
22. 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
Separation of powers
Delegated powers inherent
Primary elections
23. 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.
Political theory: Purpose of government
Devine Right Theory
Delegated powers expressed
Political Parties
24. 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
Function of political parties
Moderates
John Locke (Father of Liberalism)
Social Contract Theory
25. 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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26. Governments get their right to rule through the will of the people. ('Social Contract')
Denaturalization
Caucuses
1st Amendment
Jean - Jaque Rousseau
27. Citizenship can be lost through expatriation - certain crimes - or ___________.
Denaturalization
Adams Smith: 'Wealth of Nations'
Communism
Party nominations
28. Private meeting of party members - where party nominations are sought
John Locke (Father of Liberalism)
Maintaining social order
Political Parties
Caucuses
29. Affirmative action - discrimination against women - right to know about govt actions - privacy - and the fight against terrorism.
Moderates
Key civil liberties issues
Communism
Major Political Theorists: Evolutionary Theory
30. 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.
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Federalism
Adams Smith: 'Wealth of Nations'
Key civil liberties issues
31. 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)
Pure capitalism
Nominating conventions
Citizens' rights - duties - and responsibilities
32. 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.
Making economic decisions
Party nominations
Providing national security
Republicanism
33. 1 - 2 or multi - party systems; several parties often combine to form a coalition government
Force Theory
Delegated powers implied
Political Parties
Public opinion
34. Congress can pass laws - the President can veto laws - Congress can override the veto by 2/3rds vote. The federal courts can rule the constitutionality of Congresses laws. The President appoints federal judges but the Senate must approve.
Checks and balances
How interest groups work
1st Amendment
Providing public service
35. Government emerged when all people of an area were brought under the authority of one person or group
Citizenship Rights
Adams Smith: 'Wealth of Nations'
How interest groups work
Force Theory
36. Some believe the state evolved from the family. The head of the primitive family was the authority that served as government.
Delegated powers expressed
Iroquois Constitution
Primary elections
Major Political Theorists: Evolutionary Theory
37. Sought via: Caucuses - Nominating conventions - primary elections - petitions (candidate is placed on ballot if # of voters sign a petition)
Party nominations
John Locke (Father of Liberalism)
Primary elections
Providing national security
38. Emphasizes no social class and all property is common - In communist nations - govts decide on production and distribution (command economy)
Government's Responsibility
Political theory: Purpose of government
Communism
Citizenship Participation
39. 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
Government's Responsibility
Developing Federalism
Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense'
40. 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
Public opinion
Classical foundations
Pure capitalism
Caucuses
41. 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
Separation of powers
Providing public service
Moderates
Function of political parties
42. Support both economic and social freedoms - free markets and unrestricted speech
Libertarians
Devine Right Theory
Capitalism
Providing public service
43. Abraham Lincoln in 1854 says a government should do for a community whatever they need for general welfare
Providing public service
Primary elections
Providing national security
Communism
44. Changing ideas - social conditions - and technology.
Adams Smith: 'Wealth of Nations'
Government's Responsibility
Challenges for civil liberties
Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense'
45. Government should protect people against attacks from other states and threats like terrorism. Also govt should handle relations with other countries.
Delegated powers implied
Providing national security
Challenges for civil liberties
1st Amendment
46. 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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47. Official public meeting of political parties
Social Contract Theory
Citizens' rights - duties - and responsibilities
Challenges for civil liberties
Nominating conventions
48. 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
Jean - Jaque Rousseau
Popular sovereignty
Checks and balances
1st Amendment
49. 'The Great Law of Peace'- Benjamin Franklin became familiar with; presented
Delegated powers expressed
John Locke (Father of Liberalism)
Denaturalization
Iroquois Constitution
50. The powers that the national government may excessive simply because it is a government.
Delegated powers inherent
Making economic decisions
Republicanism
Libertarians