Philosophers
Believed that people were selfish and greedy and needed government to impose order. Social contract was between the people, not between the people and the king
Thomas Hobbes
Define government
the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies
Brutus feared what type of government would become irrelevant?
State government
What Constitutional principle is demonstrated when Congress overrides a presidential veto?
Checks and Balances
Believed the best government was one divided into different branches in order to keep one group or person from becoming too powerful.
Baron de Montesquieu
Define democracy
Term used to describe a political system in which the people are said to rule, directly or indirectly
This plan proposed at the Constitutional Convention proposed a bicameral house where both the lower and the upper house would have representation based on population.
Virginia Plan
Federalist 51 addressed which constitutional principles? Name at least 1
Checks and Balances
Federalism
Which powers does the necessary and proper clause create?
Implied powers
Identify the political philosopher who believed that the purpose of the government was to protect individual rights, and that if the government failed to do so, the people had the right to revolution.
John Locke
An agreement between the people and their government, signifying their consent to be governed.
social contract theory
What kind of government does the US have?
Representative Democracy (Republic)
According to federalist 10, what kind of government best protects the people from the dangers of factions?
This Constitutional clause made Anti-Federalists fear that state laws would become null and void if ratified.
Supremacy clause
This philosopher's social contract was based on the ideals of popular sovereignty and the dea that the government's purpose is to protect the general will
Rousseau
In the US political system, the term Federalism refers to what?
The division of powers between state and national governments
Under the Articles of Confederation, which of the following were true?
I. Congress could not tax the states directly.
II. The executive branch of government exercised more power than Congress.
III. Congress was a unicameral body.
IV. States were represented in Congress proportionally according to population.
I and III
Federalists believed that a nation dominated by factions would lead to
A) Protection of minority rights
B) A tyranny of the majority
C) A recognition that factions would be in the best interests of the country
d) another revolution
B) Tyranny of the majority
Which idea is best represented in the excerpt:
"Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent. The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another... When any number of men have so consented to make one community or government, they are thereby presently incorporated, and make one body politic, wherein the majority have a right to act and conclude the rest." — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 1689
consent of the governed
In Federalist 10, does Madison believe it it possible to remove the causes of factions? Why?
No, it is not possible to remove the causes of factions in a republican government. Removing the causes would either destroy liberty, or force everyone to have the same opinions