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Government Final

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One of the key ingredients for a nation being a state, ___________ means that the government of that area is independent of any other national government.
Sovereignty
________________ is an institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies either directly, through representatives or by a ruler's decree.
Government
A ___________ is a geo-political entity with a clearly-defined border, a sovereign government, and a population united behind a central unifying belief.
Nation-State
The American court system's main method for checking the power of the other two branches of government is called__________ which allows them to rule on the constitutionality of legislation and executive actions.
Judicial review
All of the goals that governments undertake in all it is involved in is called ___________.
Public policy
Some Special Interest Groups hire people to try and sway elected officials to vote in a way that benefits their group. This is called ____________.
Lobbying
______________ is information "spun" to cast politicians in a positive light or their opponents in a negative light in order to win votes.
Propoganda
When politicians re-draw district voting lines to favor one group or put another at a disadvantage it is called ___________.
Gerrymandering
Amendment giving all citizens the right to vote.
15th Amendment
Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
Amendment that set the voting age to 18.
26th Amendment
States have the exclusive power to hold elections, making it a _____________ power.
Reserved
A grant given to a State by the federal government for a specific purpose such as repairing a highway or expanding a food stamp program would be considered a ______________ grant.
Categorical
The federal principle or system of government where power is divided between a central authority and constituent political unit.
Federalism
Makes the laws
Legislative Branch
Enforces the laws
Executive Branch
Interprets the laws
Judicial Branch
The majority leader in the House of Representatives is the ______________ which also means he/she is third in line of succession to the presidency.
Speaker of the House
___________ are ranking members of each party that try to gauge how much support there is within the party for a given bill or resolution.
Whips
The Vice President was officially named as the immediate successor to the presidency in the event the president dies in office by the ____________.
25th Amendment
Registered voters don't vote for the president directly. Instead, they vote to tell their State's electors who to cast their votes for as part of the ________________.
Electoral College
Medicare, Medicaid, and other welfare programs are often referred to as _____________.
Entitlements
A Presidential action that has the power of law unless ruled otherwise by the Supreme Court is called an _____.
Executive order
The procedure the government must go through before it can deprive a citizen of their natural rights is called ________. It was expanded to include all State legal systems as a part of the __________ after the Civil War.
Due process; 14th Amendment
The result of _________ was that all people accused of a crime must be given the opportunity to be represented by an attorney even if they can't afford one.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Freedom of the press is protected directly by _________ which prevent the government from forcing journalists to disclose sources.
Sheild laws
A writ of ________ stipulates that a person detained for a crime must be presented to a court in a timely manner and informed of the charges facing them.
habeas corpus
The Supreme Court's power of judicial review was reinforced by the __________ court case in 1800. it set the precedent that the court could rule Executive Acts and legislation unconstitutional.
Marbury v. Madison
The ____________ guarantees the natural rights of all U.S. citizens.
Bill of Rights
Before they can arrest a person, law enforcement must have ___________, or a reasonable suspicion that someone has committed a crime.
Probable cause
Once arrested, the accused person must be read their rights, a requirement established by ___________.
Miranda v. Arizona
The ____________ established that an accused person is innocent until proven guilty.
5th Amendment
A convicted person can't be forced to endure torture or cruel and unusual punishment as that would be prohibited by the ____________.
8th Amendment
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