PS 499
Title: PS 499
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 1251 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
PS 499
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 1251 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Social Contract-A voluntary agreement among individuals to create a government and to give that gov't adequate power to perform it's duties.
John Locke argued that people are born with natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Authority can be defined as the ability to exercise power legitimately.
The founding fathers did not want a direct democracy because they feared Mob rule.
A representative democracy is a system of gov't in which the will of the
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represent the states.
Each member of the House represents the people in 1 congressional district.
In a single member district, voters in the district elect one of the states representatives.
The "one person, one vote" rule requires that congressional districts have equal population.
An Entitlement program is a government program that allows a certain class of people to receive special benefits and places no limits on how much can be spent.
A trustee is a legislator