POLS 1101 ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔double jeopardy - ✔✔you cannot be tried twice for the same crime
✔✔the missouri compromise - ✔✔established maine as a free state and missouri as a
slave state to maintain the balance of power
✔✔direct democracy - ✔✔a form of democracy in which people decide on policy
initiatives directly.
✔✔due process - ✔✔fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a
citizen's entitlement.
✔✔equal protection clause - ✔✔no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction
the equal protection of the laws
✔✔political culture - ✔✔the set of attitudes, beliefs, and sentiments which give order
and meaning to a political process
✔✔concurrent power - ✔✔power shared by the state and federal government
✔✔19th amendment - ✔✔women suffrage
✔✔implied powers - ✔✔powers not explicitly named in the Constitution but assumed to
exist due to their being necessary to implement the expressed powers that are named
in Article 1
✔✔reserve power - ✔✔power that may be exercised by the head of state without the
approval of another branch of the government
✔✔affirmative action - ✔✔policies or programs designed to expand opportunities for
minorities and women
✔✔articles of confederation - ✔✔first attempt of government in the united states
✔✔double jeopardy - ✔✔you cannot be tried twice for the same crime
✔✔the missouri compromise - ✔✔established maine as a free state and missouri as a
slave state to maintain the balance of power
✔✔direct democracy - ✔✔a form of democracy in which people decide on policy
initiatives directly.
✔✔due process - ✔✔fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a
citizen's entitlement.
✔✔equal protection clause - ✔✔no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction
the equal protection of the laws
✔✔political culture - ✔✔the set of attitudes, beliefs, and sentiments which give order
and meaning to a political process
✔✔concurrent power - ✔✔power shared by the state and federal government
✔✔19th amendment - ✔✔women suffrage
✔✔implied powers - ✔✔powers not explicitly named in the Constitution but assumed to
exist due to their being necessary to implement the expressed powers that are named
in Article 1
✔✔reserve power - ✔✔power that may be exercised by the head of state without the
approval of another branch of the government
✔✔affirmative action - ✔✔policies or programs designed to expand opportunities for
minorities and women
✔✔articles of confederation - ✔✔first attempt of government in the united states
