POL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Equal Protection Clause, Supremacy Clause, Electoral College
18 Mar 2016
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Democracy: a system of government in which many people rule; rule by the many. Oligarchy: rule by the few, where a minority hold power over a majority, as in aristocracy or a clerical establishment. Monarchy: rule by the one, such as where power rests in the hand of a king or queen. Representative democracy: indirect democracy, in which the people rule through elected representatives. Popular sovereignty: the basic principle of democracy that the people are the ultimate source of government authority and of the policies that government leaders make. Majority rule: the form of political decision making in which policies are decided on the basis of what a majority of the people want. Political equality: the principle that each person carries equal weight in the conduct of the public business. Civil rights: guarantees by government of equal citizenship to all social groups.
