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- Bureaucracy. The human apparatus that operates all
government affairs.
- Checks and Balances. The power that branches of government
have to limit each others power.
- Citizen. The role a person has in relationship to
his nation.
- Civil liberties. Freedoms that your state or nation grants
you.
- Democracy. Rule by the people.
- Demographics. Physical and social aspects of a
population such as age, sex, religion, and income
level
- Domestic policy. Plans and procedures governing internal
affairs of a nation.
- Due process. All the legal procedures, appeals and
protections afforded U.S. citizens.
- Federalism. The simultaneous authority of the federal
government and the state governments.
- Habeas corpus. “You have the body.” Your right to be
informed in writing of charges against you.
- Ideology. The set of ideas that form a person’s
worldview.
- Judicial review. The power of courts to declare acts of the
legislature unconstitutional
- Conservative/Liberal. The political spectrum
which contains the range of political opinions that are
possible
- Republican/Democrat. The two major political
parties in the U.S.
- Politics. Human interactions aimed at influencing
government policy.
- Sovereignty. The ability of a state to control
all aspects of itself.
- Referendum. The power of the people, the voters,
to act as a legislature by approving policies or procedures
that have the force of law.
- Republic (Representative government). A system of
government where the people elect leaders to represent them.
- Separation of powers. The executive, legislative,
and judicial branches all have distinct and separate powers,
so that no one branch has all the power.
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