AMSCO AP GOV Chapter 1 question n answers graded A+

AMSCO AP GOV Chapter 1federalism - correct answers a system of government that divides the power between the national and state governments Federalists - correct answers group of people who endorsed the Constitution social contract - correct answers agreement between a democratic government and its' people that if violated, the people could take the power back natural law - correct answers law of God, acknowledged through human sense and reason under which people were born free and equal popular sovereignty - correct answers the people as the ultimate ruling authority republicanism - correct answers political ideology in which men were entitled to "life, liberty, and property" and these could not be taken away except under laws created through the consent of the governed participatory democracy - correct answers people vote directly for laws and other matters that affect them pluralist democracy - correct answers nongovernment groups organize to try to exert influence on political decision-making elite democracy - correct answers elected representatives make decisions and act as trustees for the people who elected them Declaration of Independence - correct answers an official statement which justified the colonies break from Britain, listing the moral and legal justification for the rebellion Articles of Confederation - correct answers series of statements that defined the initial national government and redefined the former colonies as states extradition - correct answers states were expected to return fugitives to states where they had committed crimes and runaway slaves to states that they had fled James Madison - correct answers his influence in creating the plan for the new government and his stalwart support of it during the ratification process earned him the nickname Father of the Constitution Virginia Plan - correct answers proposed three-branch system of government, bicameral legislature, and made the national government supreme over the states which became blueprint for the Constitution bicameral - correct answers two-house separation of powers - correct answers distinct responsibilities and limits of each branch to keep any one branch from becoming too powerful New Jersey Plan - correct answers proposed system of government in which states would retain sovereignty Grand Committee - correct answers committee made up of one delegate from each of the states represented at the convention Great Compromise - correct answers compromise between Virginia and New Jersey Plan House of Representatives - correct answers house of Congress which would award seats based on population of state Senate - correct answers house of Congress which would receive two senators from each state regardless of the state's size