WGU C963 Amendments (Latest 2023 - 2024)
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1. Natural Rights: The right to life, liberty, and property; believed to be
given by God; no government may take them away.
2. State of Nature: A theory on how people might have lived before societies
came into existence.
3. Due Process: The requirement that government, when dealing with
people, have in place a fair procedure which it equally applies to all.
4. Social Contract: An agreement between people and government in which
citizens consent to be governed so long as the government protects their natural rights.
5. Political Ideologies: Coherent philosophies about the structure, power,
and purpose of government.
6. Bicameral Legislature: A lawmaking body that consists of two separate
cham- bers.
7. Popular Vote: An election in which the winner is determined by the
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8. Virginia Plan: A plan for a two-house legislature; representatives would
be elected to the lower house based on each state's population; representatives for the upper house would be chosen by the lower house.
9. New Jersey Plan: A plan that called for a one-house national legislature;
each state would receive one vote.
10. Great Compromise: Also known as the Connecticut Compromise. A
compro- mise between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan that created a bicameral legislature; representation based on population in the House of Representatives and equal representation of states in the Senate.
11. Three-Fifths Compromise: A compromise between northern and
southern states that called for counting of all a state's free population and 60 percent of its slave population for both federal taxation and representation in Congress.
12. Veto: The power of the president to reject a law proposed by Congress.
13. Checks and Balances: A system that allows one branch of government to
limit the exercise of power by another branch; requires the different parts of government to work together..
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