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1. The president of the United States is chosen by 
 a. a popular vote of the people. 
 b. the U.S. Senate. 
 c. the House and Senate combined. 
 d. the electoral college. 
 e. the governors of the states. - answer d. the electoral college. 
 
2. The plan to keep the public from choosing U.S. presidents failed because 
 a. the Constitution was amended to implement popular elections of presidents. 
 b. most would-be electors were publicly pledged to a...
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PLS - American Democracy - Exam 1 Study Guide with 100% complete solutions
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Dred Scott Case correct answersSupreme Court case which ruled that slaves are not citizens but are property, affirmed that property cannot be interfered with by Congress, slaves do not become free if they travel to free territories or states, fueled abolitionist movement, hailed as victory for the south 
 
Government correct answersthe governing body of a nation, state, or community 
 
Order correct answerswhen referring to social order, this deals with established patterns of authority in socie...
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Democracy correct answersGovernment by the people in which power is invested by the people and for the people 
 
Constitution correct answersCreated national government consisting of a legislative, executive, and judicial branch with checks and balances 
 
Federalism correct answersA practice of governement Using two houses and splitting the government's power. 
 
Civil Liberties correct answersThe freedom of a citizen to exercise customary rights as speech without a warrant will not be prosecu...
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affirmative action - answer In the employment arena, intentional efforts to recruit, hire, train, and promote underutilized categories of workers (women and minority men); in higher education, intentional efforts to diversify the student body. 
 
Black Codes - answer Laws passed immediately after the Civil War by the confederate states that limited the rights of "freemen" (former slaves). 
 
Brown v. Board of Education of To...
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John Locke is cited for influencing our founding fathers with the phrase "life, liberty, and property," a 
phrase which was modified slightly by Thomas Jefferson when he wrote "we hold these truths to be 
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain 
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." In which 
document are these words written by Thomas Jefferson? - Answer-the Declaration of Independence ...
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Unit 1 - Foundations of American Democracy study guide with complete solutions
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Enlightenment correct answerspeople forming ideas based off of logic, reason, and experiments 
 
natural rights correct answersthe idea that all humans are born with rights, which include the right to life, liberty, and property 
 
Social Contract correct answersAn agreement between the people and their government signifying their consent to be governed 
 
John Locke correct answerswrote = 2 Treatises on Government which talked about natural rights (L.L.Property), the social contract (gov based ...
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Federalism correct answersSeeks to limit government by dividing it into two levels; national and state. Federalism assigns agenda-setting power, decision making power and veto power to federal government and the 50 states. 
 
Separation of Powers correct answersSeeks to limit the power of the National Government by dividing the government against itself into three different branches; legislative, executive and judicial. Each branch all with separate functions forcing them to share powers 
 
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Natural Rights correct answersrights that people supposedly have under natural law; in the Declaration of 
Independence the rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness 
 
Limited Government correct answersthe government is empowered by law from a starting point of having no power, or where governmental power is restricted by law (usually in a constitution) 
 
Popular Sovereignty correct answersa doctrine or belief that government is created by and subject to the will of the people 
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concurring opinion correct answersdocuments written by justices expressing agreements with the majority ruling but describing different or additional reasons for the ruling 
 
dissenting opinion correct answersdocuments written by justices expressing disagreement with the majority ruling 
 
majority opinion correct answersa judicial opinion agreed to by more than half of th members of a court 
 
legal precedent correct answersstare decisis. to let the decision stand. the doctrine that a trial co...
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bicameral legislature 
Two house legislature 
 
 
 
Republic 
A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives 
 
 
 
Articles of Confederation 
1776 the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to draw up a new plan for central government, called the Articles of Confederation. 
Established a weak central government and States were a "firm league of friendship" in which each state retained "its sovereignty, freedom and independence" Gave Congress Limited powers. C...
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