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CSET Social Science - Subtest IIIQuestions And Answers With Verified
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government - ANSWER✔✔composed of the formal and informatl institutions,
people, and processes used to create and conduct public policy.
public policy - ANSWER✔✔the exercise of government power in doing those
things necessary to maintain legitimate authority and control over society
anarchy - ANSWER✔✔lack of government
autocracy - ANSWER✔✔rule by one
- absolute monarch, constitutional monarchy, dictatorship
oligarchy - ANSWER✔✔rule by a few
democracy - ANSWER✔✔rule by the people
direct democracy - ANSWER✔✔citizens meet and make decisions about public
policy
representative democracy - ANSWER✔✔citizens choose officials who make
decisions about public policy
,traditional democratic theory - ANSWER✔✔government depends on the consent
of the governed, which may be given directly or through representation; may
include criteria for the measure of "how democratic"
pluralist theory - ANSWER✔✔Interest groups comet in the political arean, with
each promoting it policy preference through organized efforst
elite theory - ANSWER✔✔a small number of powerful elite form an upper class,
which rules in its own self interest.
bureaucratic theory - ANSWER✔✔the hierarchical structure and sandardized
procedures of modern voernment allow bureaucrats, who carry out the day to day
workings of government, to hold the real power over the public policy
hyperpluralism - ANSWER✔✔democracy is a system of many groups having so
much strength that government often "pulled" in numerous directions at the same
times, causing gridlock and ineffectiveness.
Ancient Greeks and Roman influences on American Government -
ANSWER✔✔Democratic government began with Greeks and Romans.
-Direct and representative democracy
Magna Carta (1215) - ANSWER✔✔-First attempt to limit power of a monarch
-guaranteed the nobility trial by jury, due process of law, and protections against
the abitrary taking of life, liberty, or property
Parliament - ANSWER✔✔- advisory group to monarch
- gained more and more power
, Petition of Rights (1628) - ANSWER✔✔- Extended the protection of the Magna
Carta to include commoners.
English Bill of Rights (1689) - ANSWER✔✔- To prevent future monarchs from
abusing their powers.
- Free Parliamentary elections
- Guarantees trial by jury, even for critics of the monarch.
Enlightenment philosophers - ANSWER✔✔John Locke: social contract as a
voluntary agreement between government and the governed. People born with
natural rights to life, liberty, and property. Government created to support those
rights.
Colonial Charters - ANSWER✔✔- each colongy was founded on the basis of a
charter from the king.
- the authority of governors, legislatures, and judges depended on the type of
colony and its charter
House of Burgesses (1619) - ANSWER✔✔_ Virginia
- first representative legislature.
- only adult male property wonders could vote for its members.
Mayflower Compact (1620) - ANSWER✔✔- Colonist aboard the Mayflower
signed an agreement.
- Established a government based on the ideas of consent of the governed and
limitations on the authority of government
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