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| social capital | democratic and civic habits of discussion, compromise, and respect for differences, which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations. |
| political structure | The widely shared beliefs, values, and norms concerning the relationship of citizens to government and to one another. |
| natural rights | The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights. |
| democratic consensus | Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergrid them. |
| majority rule | governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority. |
| Popular sovereignty | A belief that ultimate power resides in the people. |
| American Dream | The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success. |
| Capitalism | An economic system characterized by private property, competitive markets, economic incentives, and limited government involvement in the production and pricing of goods and services. |
| monopoly | domination of an industry by a single company by fixing prices and discouraging competition; also, the company that dominates the industry by these means. |
| antitrust legislation | Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade. |
| Political ideology | a consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government. |
| liberalism | A belief in the positive use of government to bring justice and equality of opportunity. |
| conservatism | A belief that limited government ensures order, competitive markets, and personal opportunity. |
| socialism | An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange. |
| environmentalism | An ideology that is dominated by concern for the environment but also promotes grassroots democracy, social justice, equal opportunity, nonviolence, respect for diversity, and feminism. |
| libertarianism | An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on a sharply limited government, promoting a free market economy, a noninterventionist foreign policy, and an absence of regulation in the moral and social spheres. |
| Can you name three of the five Shared Values by most, if not all, Americans? | Liberty, Equality, Individualism, Respect for the Common Person, Democratic Consensus |
| What is the term for the belief that power in politics is derived out of the people? | Popular Sovereignty |
| Hand in hand with the 'American Dream,' would people believe in Laissez-Faire or total government control of business? | Laissez-Faire, because the 'American Dream' promotes equal opportunity as well as privately owned property |
| Who was an extremely famous trustbuster and muckraker? | Theodore Roosevelt |
