American National Government Test One Terms

Hick's first test in AMG. Terms

49 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
The orientation of the citizens of a nation toward politics, and their perceptions of political legitimacy and the traditions of political practice
Political culture
Liberty, Equality, Individualism, Self-Government
American Creed
The act or process of governing, especially the control and administration of public policy in a political unit.
Government
The process by which groups of people make decisions
Politics
The power exercised by political authorities
Power
Right to respect or acceptance of one's word, command, thought, etc.
Authority
Theory of civics wherein sovereignty is lodged in the assembly of all citizens who choose to participate
Direct democracy
A political process in which the PEOPLE control the government through elected political officials.
Indirect democracy
The power or ability to begin or to follow through energetically with a plan or task; enterprise and determination
Initiative
A direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal.
Referendum
Peoples needs and decisions represented by persons of their own choice.
Representative democracy
Democratic in its provisions for majority influence through elections and constitutional in its provisions for minority rights and rule by law.
Constitutional democracy
An economic system based in the idea that government should have actual control over all aspects of trade and industry.
Capitalism
Divisions between peoples are natural and desirable and have a right to the opinion that separates them from the others.
Federalist #10 (factions)
Where the majority prevails in the counting of votes and the determination of public policy.
Majoritarian theory of power