TTUISD Government cbe study guide 2023/2024 verified to pass

TTUISD Government cbe study guidePublic policy - correct answer is all of the goals a government sets and the various courses of action it pursues as it attempts to realize these goals. state - correct answer is a body of people living in a defined territory who have a government with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority. Sovereignty - correct answer is having supreme power within its own territory; neither subordinate nor responsible to any other authority. Autocracy - correct answer a political system governed by a single individual oligarchy - correct answer a political system governed by a few people unitary government - correct answer a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single central agency division of powers - correct answer Basic principle of federalism; the constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis (in the United States, between the National Government and the States). presidential government - correct answer A form of government in which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate, independent, and coequal free enterprise system - correct answer an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods; investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control, and determined in a free market law of supply and demand - correct answer A law which states that when supplies of goods and services become plentiful, prices tend to drop. When supplies become scarcer, prices tend to rise. Mixed economy - correct answer an economy in which private enterprise exists in combination with a considerable amount of government regulation and promotion limited government - correct answer government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has certain rights that government cannot take away Representative government - correct answer system of government in which public policies are made by officials selected by the voters and held accountable in periodic elections Petition of Right - correct answer Document prepared by Parliament and signed by King Charles I of England in 1628; challenged the idea of the divine right of kings and declared that even the monarch was subject to the laws of the land English Bill of Rights - correct answer King William and Queen Mary accepted this document in 1689. It guaranteed certain rights to English citizens and declared that elections for Parliament would happen frequently. By accepting this document, they supported a limited monarchy, a system in which they shared their power with Parliament and the people. Charter - correct answer legal document giving certain rights to a person or company Bicameral - correct answer a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses proprietary - correct answer characteristic of an owner of property; constituting property unicameral - correct answer one-house legislature Albany plan of union - correct answer plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military, and other purposes; the plan was turned down by the colonies and the Crown Delegate - correct answer to divide up, especially responsibilities