HSA Review: Unit 1 & 2

Limited Government

• The government is restricted in what it can do by a written constitution

• The first US government that was eventually replaced

• the branch of government that makes the laws

• the branch of government that interprets laws

Rule by the people

• Rule of law

• Due process of law

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federalism

Totalitarian

• Changes changes or additions to the Constitution

• Government has total control of people's lives

• Single leader that FIGHTS to gain govt. power

• Single leader who INHERITS govt. power

All citizens make policies

• Parliamentary Democracy

• Presidential Democracy

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

Command Economy

• The govt. makes all economic decisions

• Economic decisions are based on past customs

• All citizens select representatives who make policies

• The cost of making a choice

The branch of government that makes the laws

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

• Separation of Powers

• Legislative Branch

Constitution

• an organization that has power to make and enforce laws

• no government exists, causing chaos

• A document that limits what the government can & cannot do

• A government that can do whatever it wants

A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments

• Judicial Review

• Federalism

• Propose

• Bill of rights

Ratify

• Rule by people

• Put forward a idea

• To disapprove

• To approve

The introduction to the US Constitution that lays out the main purposes of the government

• Bill of Rights

• Preamble

• Amendment

• Propose