POLI 2051 EXAM 1 KENNY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS

POLI 2051 EXAM 1 KENNY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS government - a formally established way of making and carrying out political decisions politics - the competition to shape government's impact on society's problems and goals purposes of government - protecting life, rights and liberties, providing public goods, and promoting equality political ideology - a coherent set of beliefs about how policies affect society and which policies are desirable four political ideologies - liberal, conservative, populist, libertarian requirements for democracy - popular sovereignty, political equality, political liberty popular sovereignty - people are the ultimate source of all public authority political equality - each person carries the same weight in voting and other political decision making EMILY CHARLENE © 2025, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2 political liberty - freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly, etc. are essential for democracy to work normative theory - the way things ought to be empirical theory - the way things actually are six conditions important for popular sovereignty - government policies reflect the wishes of the people, government leaders are elected, elections are free and fair, people participate in the Political Process, High-Quality information is available, the majority rules, government policies are effective delegates - do what the people want (democratic ideal) trustees - do what they think is best (republicanism) constitution - a document that specifies the basic structure of government republicanism - a form of government in which power resides in the people and is exercised by their elected representatives federalism - the division of sovereignty, and hence power, among two or more governments- national and state governments in our case; powers are derived from the people, who are the ultimate sovereign EMILY CHARLENE © 2025, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 3 separation of powers - the assignment of law-making, law-enforcing, and law- interpreting functions to separate and independent legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government checks and balances - give each branch some scrutiny or control over the other branches Articles of Confederation - a loose association of independent states Great Compromise - resolved the issu