U.S. GOVERNMENT EXAM WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS |VERIFIED
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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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U.S. GOVERNMENT
What is the purpose of government? - ACCURATE ANSWERProtect, maintain public order, resolve social conflicts, responsibility for a stable economy, and provide public services.
Limited Government - ACCURATE ANSWERA system in which government's powers are restricted and individuals' rights are pro...
U.S. GOVERNMENT EXAM
U.S. GOVERNMENT EXAM WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS |VERIFIED
What is the purpose of government? - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Protect,
maintain public order, resolve social conflicts, responsibility for a stable economy,
and provide public services.
Limited Government - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A system in which
government's powers are restricted and individuals' rights are protected.
Declaration of Independence - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Written by Thomas
Jefferson, Declares Independence, List of complaints against Britain,expresses
enduring beliefs of American society. Defines liberty, order, equality, democracy,
and justice.
John Locke - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Enlightenment philosopher who wrote
the "Second Treasties of Government", greatly influenced the Declaration of
Independence. Principles:Natural Rights and Consent of The Governed.
,Surpremacy Clause and changes - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Created to keep
elastic clause from being stretched, and to restrict governmental powers.
Overlooked during McCulloch VS. Maryland case. During the civil war,
supremacy clause guaranteed that the union could not be dissolved.
Unitary System - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A form of government in which all
powers of the government are held by a single unit or agency.
Federal System - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A form of government in which
governmental powers are divided between a central authority and a number of
regional political subdivisions.
Confederacy - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A political system in which a weak
central government has limited authority, and the states have all of the power.
Socialism - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅The economic system that advocates
government ownership of the means of products.
Capitalism - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅An economic system characterized by
open competition in a free market and based on private ownership.
Communism - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A system of government in which the
state controls the means of production.
Parlimentary Government - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A form of government in
which the executive leaders are chosen by and responsible to the legislature.
, Presidential Government - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A form of government in
which the legeslative and executive brances are seperate and function
independently.
Democracy - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A sytem of government by the people,
exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
Direct Democracy - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A democratic system of
government in which all citizens participate in politics and desicion-making.
Representative Democracy - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A democratic system of
government in which policies are made by officials accountable to the people who
elected them.
Dictatorship - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A form of government in which an
absolute ruler controls the power, often through fear or force, and ignores the will
of the people.
Monarchy - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅A government in which the ruler's power
is hereditary.
Popular Sovereignty - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅The fundemental principle
that the power to govern belongs to the people and that the government must be
based on the consent of the governed.
Second Treasties of Government - ACCURATE ANSWER✅✅Written by John
Locke, and expresses enlightenment philosophy and the principles of the consent
of the governed and natural rights.
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