AMSCO AP GOV Chapter 1 question n answers

AMSCO AP GOV Chapter 1 federalism - correct answers a system of government that divides the power between the national and state governments Federalists - correct answers group of people who endorsed the Constitution social contract - correct answers agreement between a democratic government and its' people that if violated, the people could take the power back natural law - correct answers law of God, acknowledged through human sense and reason under which people were born free and equal popular sovereignty - correct answers the people as the ultimate ruling authority republicanism - correct answers political ideology in which men were entitled to "life, liberty, and property" and these could not be taken away except under laws created through the consent of the governed participatory democracy - correct answers people vote directly for laws and other matters that affect them pluralist democracy - correct answers nongovernment groups organize to try to exert influence on political decision-making elite democracy - correct answers elected representatives make decisions and act as trustees for the people who elected them Declaration of Independence - correct answers an official statement which justified the colonies break from Britain, listing the moral and legal justification for the rebellion