Quarter 3 PMA Review

The gov’t has to follow rules & established procedures in everything it does.

• rule of law

• social contract

• eminent domain

• due process

Power resides with the people, not with government or its leaders.

• rule of law

• popular sovereignty

• due process

• federalism

Government with a ruler who inherits the position, may rule for life & holds powers varying from very limited to total rule.

• communism

• republic

• monarchy

• democracy

Idea that the national government shares power with the state gov’t. The sharing of power between federal & state gov’t.

• federalism

• checks and balances

• rule of law

• state of nature

Agreement between gov’t and people to take care of one another. Is an agreement between the people in society.

• state of nature

• separation of powers

• rule of law

• social contract

Formal approval of an agreement, treaty or constitution.

• bicameral

• ratification

• impeachment

• veto

The legal principle that every group and person, including the government must obey the law. No one is above the law, no one is below the law.

• checks and balances

• double jeopardy

• rule of law

• limited government

A government in which the citizens hold the political power.

• democracy

• monarchy

• communism

• oligarchy

Where everyone votes on all issues in a community. (Ancient Greece)

• direct democracy

• communism

• socialism

• representative democracy

A system in which each branch of gov’t can limit the power of the other branches.

• separation of powers

• state of nature

• communism

• checks and balances