politics

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

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

Purpose of the Government

providing leadership

maintaining order

providing public service

providing national security

providing economic security and assistance

Constitution

A plan that provides the rulers for the government

Principal of the constitutions

Limited power

popular sovereignty and republicanism

federalism

separations of powers

check and balance

Individual rigths

Socializations

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

Political socialization

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

Generazation

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

Separation of powers

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

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

Limited government

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

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.

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.

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

Check and balance

legislative approve judges and overrides veto

executive veto and appoints judges

Judicial make the war decisions

Individual rigths

The bill of rights

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

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.

Maintaining order

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

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.

Provide national security

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

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