| A | B |
|---|
| News | an unbaised reporting of facts |
| Democracy | The people rule |
| The Media (Medium) | Anything used to communicate |
| Mass media | Some communication that reaches very large audiences. |
| Media establishment | This communication has a very strong influence and are usually big coorporations. |
| Constitution | Set of laws which a country is ruled by. |
| Government | The institution though which a society makes and enforces national public polocies |
| Federalism | The power to govern is shared between states. |
| Sovereign, popular sovereignty | Ruler. The people are in control. (Democracy) |
| Framers | founding fathers of the Constitution |
| Checks and balanves | where each branch has the authority to restrain action of other branches. |
| Veto | When the president strikes down laws |
| Limited government | The government only has as much power as the people give it. |
| Judicial Review | Where the Federal Courts have the power to review govermental actions |
| Separated Powers (three branches) | Prevents mususe of power |
| Legislative Branch | This branch has the power to make laws. It is the house of congress. |
| Judicial Branch | This branch has the power to interpret laws. It's the house of the Federal Courts. |
| Executive Branch | This branch has the power to execute and administer laws. |
| Tyranny | A Government where one person has absolute power. |
| Political Parties | A group of people with common beliefs who seek to control the Government. |
| Politics | process by which a society decides how power will by distrubuted within that society. |
| State | A body of people that has a population, territory, government, and sovereign |
| Editorial | an opinionated article without the name of the person who wrote it |
| Op-ed | An opinionated article with the name of the author. |
| Rights, liberties | Someting to which you are entitled; not a privledge |
| Patriot Act | Set of laws intended to give the government the right to tap down terrorists though phones |
| Guantanamo Bay | Where the Government keeps terrorists |
| Al Qaeda | A terrorist organization |
| Warrants | permission slips for the government |
| Liberal | believes of freedom of the individual. Believes that government mst take action to change economic, political, and ideological policies thought to be unfair. |
| Conservative | Seeks to keep in place the economic political and docial structures of society |
| Political Spectrum | Radical-----------Liberal---------Moderate--------Conservative--------Reactionary |
| Congress | Part of the legislative branch, it makes laws |
| Social contract | the state only exists to serve the will of the people. Gained: organization, peace, safety. Lost: total freedom, survival of the fitist |
| Inalienable | can't take rights away |
| Natural rights | life, liberty, and, property |
| The preamble | states the broad purposes the constitution is intended to serve. We the people.... |
| Domestic Tranquility | order in a society |
| Dictatorship | When a person or a group of people have total control of the government. Some forms are oligarchies and monarchies |
| Communism | the state of ownership of land and other productive property. |
| Unitary | all powers held by the government belonging to a central agency. |
| Confederate | governmental power to hanle only those maters the meember states have assighned to it. |
| Oligarchy | Governed by a small group of people. military rules |
| Totalitarianism | When a leader makes all rules when government has control over everyone |
| Monarchy | King passed down generations to generations |
| Theocracy | ruled by religious leaders |
| Divine Right | that the government was given it the power by God. |
| Supreme Court | Part of the Judicial Branch and consits of 9 people |
| Attorney General | works for the President in the executive branch. THe cheif law enforcement officer |
| Democracy | Direct: small community, indirect: republic. |
| Republic | Government with 3 branches and a president instead of a monarchy or dictatorship. |
