primary election - Answer- an election that narrows the field of candidates before an election for offce
direct democracy - Answer- a form of democracy
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oligarchy - Answer- a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people
Power - Answer- an American crime drama television series airing on Starz
political power - Answer- In social science and politics, the ability to influence or outright control the behavior of people
limited government - Answer- a concept in political philosophy in which governmental power is restricted by law, usually in a written constitution
bureaucracy - Answer- a body of non-elective government offcials and/or an administrative policy-making group
representative democracy - Answer- a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected offcials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy
Authority - Answer- can be used to mean the right to exercise power given by the State , or by academic knowledge of an area
theocracy - Answer- or ecclesiocracy is a form of government in which a deity is the source from which all authority derives
United States Constitution - Answer- the supreme law of the United States of America
limited government - Answer- a concept in political philosophy in which governmental power is restricted by law, usually in a written constitution
constitutional amendment - Answer- refers to the modification of the constitution of a nation or state
legislature - Answer- a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city
Bill of Rights - Answer- the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
nullification - Answer- in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional
Great Depression - Answer- a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s
bicameral - Answer- A bicameral legislature is one in which the legislators are divided into two separate assemblies, chambers or houses
judicial branch - Answer- the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state
sovereign nation - Answer- is understood in jurisprudence as the full right and power of a governing body to govern itself without any interference from outside sources or bodies
legislative branch - Answer- a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city
Fourteenth Amendment - Answer- was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments
New Deal - Answer- was a series of social liberal programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later
state official - Answer- someone who holds an office in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority
Interest groups - Answer- Advocacy groups use various forms of advocacy in order to influence public opinion and/or policy
Issue networks - Answer- an alliance of various interest groups and individuals who unite in order to promote a single issue in government policy
bureaucracy - Answer- a body of non-elective government officials and/or an administrative policy-making group
New Deal - Answer- a series of social liberal programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later
Conflict - Answer- In literature, the literary element is an inherent incompatibility between the objectives of two or more characters or forces
Bureaucrats - Answer- a member of a bureaucracy and can compose the administration of any organization of any size, although the term usually connotes someone within an institution of government
Red tape - Answer- an idiom that refers to excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered redundant or bureaucratic and hinders or prevents action or decision-making
Political socialization - Answer- the study of the developmental processes by which people of all ages and adolescents acquire political cognition, attitudes, and behaviors
Rational choice theory - Answer- also known as choice theory, is a framework for understanding and often formally modeling social and economic behavior
Public opinion - Answer- The desires, wants, and thinking of the majority of the people - or the collective opinion of the people of a society or state on an issue or problem
public opinion polls - Answer- An opinion poll, sometimes simply referred to as a poll, is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample
limited government - Answer- a concept in political philosophy in which governmental power is restricted by law, usually in a written constitution
sampling error - Answer- In statistics, this is incurred when the statistical characteristics of a population are estimated from a subset, or sample, of that population
Nationalism - Answer- is a shared group feeling in the significance of a geographical and sometimes demographic region seeking independence for its culture or ethnicity that holds that group together"
frame of reference - Answer- In physics, this consists of an abstract coordinate system and the set of physical reference points that uniquely fix the coordinate system and standardize measurements
Separation of Church and State Doctrine - Answer- a concept defining the distance in the relationship between organized religion and the nation state
right of privacy - Answer- a human right and an element of various legal traditions which may restrain both government and private party action that threatens the privacy of individuals
Jim Crow laws - Answer- were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States
Affirmative Action - Answer- is the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group who currently suffer or historically have suffered from discrimination within a culture
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