American Political Thought Final

2. When social class is primarily hiearchy
3. southern politics emphasized defending ___ through deuling and brinkmanship
5. derived from Malcom X, self defence and establishment of a separate black economy and society if necessary
6. Civil Disobedience
8. abrv. Powerful US document that embodies the principles of liberty and justice
11. Modernized Hobbe’s Social Contract, argued how modern liberal democracies could still be legitimated by social contract ideas.
12. Politics that falls outside “normal” pluralist politics
13. ___ challenged that Reconstruction governments, with Black participation, were uniquely corrupt or failures given the extreme post-war conditions
15. represents a community justified by God
17. On Constitutional Equality
19. theory used to explain necessary factors for stable capitalist democratic states
20. theory that is traditional to modern society with potential “bad ends” in communism or totalitarianism
23. History of conservatism where Republican politicians build a new coalition to overturn the New Deal order based on Democratic failures in Vietnam, Great Society, and inflation
24. The main anti-federalist argument and need
25. American slavery where African Americans were divorced from African Cultures
29. “The thief who attacks my property, I have the right to retaliate”
30. Compromise between conservative factions by focusing on freedom as the primary political good

1. Moral-political rationality, use of state power to enforce, often Christian, emphasizes authority
4. initiated the anti slavery abolitionist movement
7. the theory that states had the right to ‘nullify’ legislation applying to them
9. His 1980 election represented a decisive rejection of the New Deal Democrat coalition that had governed in some form since the 1930’s.
10. Established the birth of modern liberalism
14. Era where social groups attacked monopolies, political party patronage, undemocratic processes, and inefficiency
16. theory derived from Thomas Hobbes
18. Founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
21. prevents Congress from abusing its power
22. Rights of the individual, Free trade, equality before law, common government for security only
26. History of conservatism where the right wing movement organized against the established mainstream, both Republican and Democrat
27. theory that there is no ruling majority but instead just differently organized groups
28. The process of repairing a group of people because of their identity and in violation of their fundamental rights