AP Gov Midterm set 3
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rachel_gremillion on December 21, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 jurisdiction | (of a congressional committee) The policy area in which a particular congressional committee is authorized to act. |
| jurisdiction | (of a congressional committee) The policy area in which a particular congressional committee is authorized to act. |
| laissez-faire doctrine | a classical economic philosophy that holds that owners of businesses should be allowed to make their own production and distribution decisions without the government regulation control |
| law | (as enacted by Congress) a legislative proposal, or bill, that is passed by both the House and Senate and is wither signed or not vetoed by the president (bill) |
| lawmaking function | the authority (of a legislature) to make the laws necessary to carry out the government's powers |
| laws | (of a court case) the constitutional provisions, legislative statutes, or judicial precedents that apply to a court case |
| libel | publication of material that falsely damages a person's reputation |
| liberty | the principle that individuals should be free to act and think as they choose, provided they do not infringe unreasonably on the rights and freedoms of others |
| logrolling | the trading of votes between legislators so that each gets what he or she most wants |
| necessary and proper (elastic) clause | the authority granted congress in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution "to make all laws necessary and proper" for the implementation of its enumerated powers |
| New Jersey (small state) Plan | a constitutional proposal for a strengthened Congress but one in which each state has only one vote, thus granting a smaller state the same legislative power as a larger one |
| North-South Compromise | the agreement over economic and slavery issues that enabled northern and southern states to settle their differences that threatened to defeat the effort to draft a new constitution |
| oligarchy | government in which control rests with a few persons |
| original jurisdiction | the authority of a given court to be the first court to hear a case |
| pluralism | a theory of America's politics that holds that society's interests are substantially represented through the activites of groups |
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