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politics

competitions between competing interest groups or individuals for power and leadership.

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Government

The action or manner of controlling or regulating a nation organization or people. An institution through which leaders exercise power to make and enforce law affecting the people under it's control

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Purpose of the Government

providing leadership

maintaining order

providing public service

providing national security

providing economic security and assistance

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Constitution

A plan that provides the rulers for the government

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Principal of the constitutions

Limited power

popular sovereignty and republicanism

federalism

separations of powers

check and balance

Individual rigths

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Socializations

the process beginning during childhood by which individuals acquire the values, habits, and attitudes of a society.

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Political socialization

a process by which individuals learn their political beliefs and attitudes from family school friends, coworkers and other sources

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Generazation

an argument that suggests a whole group has a characteristic based on the observation of a subset of that group

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Separation of powers

a doctrine of constitutional law under which the three branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial) are kept separate.l

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political socialization

Political socialization is the process by which individuals internalize and develop their political values, ideas, attitudes, and perceptions via the agents of socialization. examples: family, school, peers, civic and religion

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Limited government

From the principle of government is fundamental to other principles. they also limit the power by explicit grants of authority

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Popular sovereignty and republicanism

Republic: a government in which voters hold sovereign power elected representatives, responsible to the people, exercise that power ---- people rule the country.

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Federalism

Americans live under both national and state government.

Todyas national government is eating up the states to control them and have more power to take decisions for the state.

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separation of powers

The legislative branch makes laws

Executive branch carries out laws/implements- president has to sign it- veto

The judicial branch make sure laws are being followed

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Check and balance

legislative approve judges and overrides veto

executive veto and appoints judges

Judicial make the war decisions

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Individual rigths

The bill of rights

This is where the Constitution protects the rights of individuals, as seen in the Bill of Rights.

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providing leadership

to establish how things go

National government/state/local

making decisions on behalf of the citizens and someone's they don't -- representative do it.

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Maintaining order

The government try to control and contain conflict between people by placing limits on what individuals are permitted to do.

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Providing public service

government creates schools, builds sewer system, pave roads, and provide other services that individualism cannot or wouldn't do on their own.

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Provide national security

To provide people protection against attack by another country or by terrorist

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provide economic security and assistance

protects the economic security of their people, just like they protect national security

cost a lot of money

Everyone's needs are different