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Unit 1 Terms

• Politics - The effort to control or influence the
  conduct and policies of government
• Anarchy - The absence of government political
  disorder
• Ratify - To approve, or to sign into law

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Unit 1 Terms

• Preamble - The part of the Constitution that
  tells why the government was created in the way
  it was
• Embargo - Prohibiting trade with another nation
• Revenue - Money collected by the government
• Articles - The part of the Constitution that
  tells how our government is composed and how it
  functions
• Bicameral - A legislature made up of two houses
• Unicameral - A legislature made up of one house

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Unit 1 Terms

• Consensus agreement about basic beliefs
• Social Contract theory that by contract, people
  surrender to the state, the power needed to
  maintain order, and the state, in turn, agrees to
  protect its people
• Thomas Jefferson - primary author of the
  Declaration of Independence
• James Madison primary author of the Constitution

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Unit 1 Terms

• Constitutional Law involves the interpretation
  and application of the constitution
• Command Economy closely related to Socialism

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4 Purposes of Government

• Maintain social order
• Provide public services
• National defense
• Make economic decisions

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• Democracy
• free elections with competing political parties
• Individual liberty
• Autocracy
• - totalitarian dictatorship
• - examplesHitler, Mussolini, Stalin

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• Capitalism
• - free enterprise
• - private ownership and control of property and
  economic resources
• - competition among businesses
• Socialism
• - distribution of wealth equally
• - public ownership of most land, factories, and
  other means of production
• - government provides public services

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• Communism
• - state owned land, natural resources, industry,
  banks, and transportation facilities state
  controlled mass media
• John Locke wrote the textbook of the American
  Revolution