AP Government

Lake Braddock Secondary School

VOCABULARY TERMS
Unit 1 Founders Intent
Using your textbook and other sources as necessary, write out the following terms and/or significance of them
in your composition notebook. Be sure to write a definition pertaining to government not just one out of the
dictionary!! The composition book will be turned in for a grade on the DAY OF THE TEST on that unit. ie.
Chapters 1, 2 & 3 are due on the day of the first test!!
Ch. 1: 19. Policy 11. Virginia 28. John
Introducing gridlock Plan Locke
Government in 20. Gross 12. Connecti 29. James
America domestic cut/Grea Madison
1. Govern product t 30. Second
ment 21. Individua Compro Treatise
2. Public lism mise of Civil
goods 22. Policy 13. Writ of Govern
3. Politics Impacts habeas ment
4. Political 23. Political corpus 31. Social
participa Culture 14. Separati Contract
tion 24. Populism on of Theory
5. Single- 25. bureaucr powers 32. Necessar
issue atic 15. Checks y and
groups and proper
6. Policyma Ch. 2: The balances clause
king Constitution 16. Republic 33. Constitu
system 1. Constitu 17. Federalis tional
7. Linkage tion t conventi
institutio 2. Declarati 18. Anti- on
ns on of Federalis 34. Impeach
8. Policy Indepen ts ment
agenda dence 19. Federalis process
9. Political 3. Natural t Papers 35. Three-
issue rights 20. Bill of Fifths
10. Policyma 4. Consent Rights Compro
king of the 21. Equal mise
institutio governe Rights 36. Bills of
ns d Amendm attainder
11. Public 5. Limited ent 37. Ex post
policy governm 22. Formal facto
12. Democra ent Amendm laws
cy 6. Articles ent 38. Delegate
13. Majority of 23. Informal d powers
rule Confeder Amendm 39. Implied
14. Minority ation ent powers
rights 7. Shays’ 24. Marbury 40. Reserved
15. Represe Rebellio v. powers
ntation n Madison 41. Inherent
16. Pluralist 8. U.S. 25. Judicial powers
theory Constitu review 42. Writ of
17. Elite and tion 26. Federalis habeas
class 9. Factions m corpus
theory 10. New 27. Popular 43. Bill of
18. Hyperplu Jersey Sovereig Attainde
ralism Plan nty r
 44. Ex-post Marylan sanction
facto law d s
45. 15. Enumera 32. Crosscu
ted tting
Madison powers requirem
16. Elastic ents
ian Clause 33. America
17. Gibbons ns with
Model v. Ogden Disabiliti
18. Full Faith es Act
Ch. 3: & Credit 34. Devoluti
Federalism 19. Extraditi on
1. Federalis on 35. Concurre
m 20. Privilege nt
2. Decentra s and powers
lization Immuniti
3. Unitary es
governm 21. Dual
ents federalis
4. Federal m
governm 22. Coopera
ents tive
5. Confeder federalis
ation m
6. Intergov 23. Fiscal
ernment federalis
al m
relations 24. Federal
7. Suprema grants-
cy in-aid
Clause 25. Categori
8. Republic cal
9. Govern grants
ment by 26. Project
proxy grants
10. Nullifica 27. Formula
tion grants
11. Authorit 28. Block
y grants
12. faction 29. Mandate
13. Tenth 30. Unfunde
Amendm d
ent mandate
14. McCullo s
ch v. 31. Crossove
r