Unit 1 Vocabulary & Content Review AP Government & Politics

The process of influencing the actions and policies of government

• government

• politics

• republic

• individual rights

The rules and institutions that make up that system of policymaking

• government

• republic

• iron triangle

• politics

A system of government where power is help by the people

• republic

• oligarchy

• democracy

• monarchy

The right to life, liberty, and property, which government cannot take away

• inalienable rights

• natural rights

• civil rights

• social rights

People allow their governments to rule over them to ensure an orderly and functioning society

• natural rights

• checks and balances

• limited government

• social contract

The set of beliefs, customs, traditions, and values that all Americans share

• republicanism

• selective incorporation

• American political culture

• elite democracy

The idea that the government's right to rule comes from the people

• popular sovereignty

• republicanism

• limited government

• Full Faith and Credit Clause

A system in which the government's authority comes from the people

• politics

• popular sovereignty

• republicanism

• merit system

Rights the government cannot take away

• natural rights

• inalienable rights

• civil rights

• fundamental rights

Social, political, and conomic freedoms

• life

• liberty

• merit system

• judicial review