WGU c181 OA study guide Latest 2022
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Maintaining Order ✔✔Preserving life and protecting property, establishing basic order
Providing public goods ✔✔benefits and services available to everyone, such as education
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WGU c181 OA study guide Latest 2022
Rated A
Maintaining Order ✔✔Preserving life and protecting property, establishing basic order
Providing public goods ✔✔benefits and services available to everyone, such as education,
sanitation, and parks
promoting equality ✔✔Ensuring individuals or groups are not treated differently on the basis of
their specific protected characteristics
Liberalism according to John Locke ✔✔The belief that states should leave individuals free to
follow their individual pursuits
What is the purpose of government according to john lockes philosophy of liberalism ✔✔the
protection of life, liberty, and property
what three values are considered to be foundational to american government ✔✔freedom, order
and equality
political equiality ✔✔equality in political decision making, one vote per person with all votes
counted equally
Social equality ✔✔equality in wealth, education, and status
How does the US constitution guarantee political equality ✔✔prohibits titles of nobility and does
not make owning property a requirement for holding public office
the original dilemma ✔✔freedom vs orderexample of original dilemma ✔✔mandatory testing for HIV/AIDS
Modern dilemma ✔✔Freedom vs. Equality
example of freedom vs equality ✔✔mandating that buses and trains are accessible to people with
disabilties
political ideology ✔✔a consistent set of values and beliefs about the proper purpose and scope of
government
Totalitarianism ✔✔belief that government should have unlimited power
anarchism ✔✔opposes government in any form
Capitalism ✔✔supports free enterprise
Socialism ✔✔central government plays strong role in regulating existing private industry and
directing the economy
What kind of economic system would libertarians support ✔✔Laissez Faire
Direct democracy ✔✔rank-and file citizen rule themselves rather than electing representatives to
govern on their behalf
Indirect Democracy ✔✔system of government where citizen elect public officials to govern on
their behalfSocial contract theory ✔✔people agree to set up rulers for certain purposes and thus have the right
to resist or remove rulers who act against these purposes
Republic ✔✔A government without a monarch; a government rooted in the consent of the
governed, whose power is exercised by elected representatives responsible to the governed
Under a confederation who has more power? (states or national governemnt?) ✔✔State
government
What powers did the states have under the article of confederation ✔✔retain their sovereignty,
which means that each has supreme power within it's boarders. The central government is weak,
can only coordinate not control
Major weakness of the articles of confederation ✔✔1. No ability to tax
2. No leadership position to direct the government
3. Did not allow the national government to regulate interstate and foreign commerce
4. could not be amended without the unaimous agreement of the congress
Shay's rebellion ✔✔demonstrated the weakness of the articles of confederation
Virgina Plan ✔✔Separation of government into three branches, division of the legislature into two
houses and proportional representation in the legislature
New Jersey Plan ✔✔Single chamber legislature have the power to raise revenue and regulate
commerce.
Great Compromise ✔✔House according to population, States represented equally
The 4 elements of the preamble ✔✔1. Creates a people
2. explains the reason for the constitution3. Articulates goals
4. Fashions a government
4 basic princples of the US constitution ✔✔1. republicanism
2. federalism
3. separation of powers
4. checks and balances
Checks and balances ✔✔gives each branch of the government some scrutiny of and control over
the other branches to prevent the exclusive exercise of certain powers by any one of the three
branches
Supremacy clause ✔✔In article 6 of the constitution that asserts that national laws take precedence
over state laws when they conflict
Enumerate powers ✔✔the powers specifically granted to congress by the constitution
Necessary and Proper Clause ✔✔the last clause in section 8 of article I, which gives congress the
means to execute the enumerate powers this is also called the elastic clause
Article I ✔✔What congress can and cant do and the qualifications of congress
Article II ✔✔What the president can and can't do and the qualifications for presidency
Article III ✔✔what the courts can/can't do, qualifications for supreme and sma
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