Section 1A
This form of government has only a single ruler.
What is autocracy?
This document is a written plan of government.
What is constitution?
The basic rights to which all people are entitled.
What are human rights?
This is an agreement in which each side gives up part of its demands in order to reach a solution to a problem.
What is compromise?
This is the lawmaking body of Great Britain which is bicameral.
What is parliament?
This form of government has a single ruler who often assumes power by force.
What is dictatorship?
This form of government has a single ruler with hereditary rule.
What is monarchy?
This document lists the reasons the colonies decided to separate from Great Britain and to form an independent country.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This was the first official document to limit the government; ratified in 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
This was the first document to establish self- government in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Providing services, helping people cooperate, and providing laws are all examples of this.
What are the purposes of government?
In this form of government, the people rule directly.
What is a direct democracy?
This plan for government which gave the 13 states absolute power that was ratified in 1783 and had many weaknesses such as: Congress had trouble passing laws because a vote of 9 of the 13 states was needed.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This document listed all the rights entitled to a citizen.
What is the Bill of rights?
This form of government divides a government’s powers between the national government and the state governments.
What is federalism?
In this form of government, the people elect representatives to rule them.
What is representative democracy or republic?
This is a government controlled by one or more religious leaders who claim to rule on behalf of God or the gods worshipped in their country.
What is a theocracy?
This is a loose association, rather than a firm union, of states.
What is a confederation?
Supporters of the Constitution, who favored a strong national government, were called this.
What are federalists?
People who opposed the new Constitution and the federal system of government were called this.
What are antifederalists?
This is a command-based economic system based on state-ownership of property, where central planners determine what goods will be produced.
What is communism?
This is a philosophy and economic system that calls for government ownership and control of the economy.
What is socialism?
This is absolute power.
What is sovereignty?
The action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, law, or agreement, making it officially valid.
What is ratification?
The new U.S. government, under the Constitution, began to operate at this time.
What is March 1789?