AmGovt. Vocabulary - Lessons 1.3 & 1.4

the common folk in the Roman Republic

something that causes change

prevent others from sharing; to control, dominate

an adjustment of opposing principles of systems by modifying some aspect of each

an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods

• mercantilism

• feudalism

• free enterprise system

• compromise

the belief that God grants authority to a government

in a democracy, the majority of the people will be right more often than they will be wrong, and will be right more often than will any one person or small group

• majority rule

• compromise

• minority rule

• antitrust laws

a member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to it by birth or naturalization and is entitled to full civil rights

• citizen

• compromise

• legitimacy

• patricians

laws that regulate business practices in order to promote competition

• patricians

• legitimacy

• sovereignty

• antitrust laws

utmost authority in decision making and in maintaining the order of a state

• patricians

• legitimacy

• compromise

• sovereignty