KEY WORDS
A form of government that derives its powers directly or indirectly from the people, is administered by officials holding power for a limited time, and incorporates representative institutions,
What is a republic?
Encroachment of colonial settlements, disease, and warfare significantly reduced the indigenous population on the eastern seaboard.
What are Native Americans?
True or False:
Government should be the master, not the servant, of the people.
False
Government should be the servant, not the master, of the people.
Who distinguished between types of governments on the basis of the number of persons exercising power?
Who was Aristotle?
A plan that sets forth the structure and powers of government.
What is a constitution?
A written plan of government that sets forth
the structures and powers of government.
What is a written constitution?
The United States was officially recognized as an independent nation by this document.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
True or False:
The Founders learned about government from reading history and philosophy.
True:
The Founders learned about government from reading history and philosophy and from their own experience of self-government as colonists within the British Empire.
A form of government that is ruled by a few people, usually rich people.
What is oligarchy?
Britain, Israel, and New Zealand have these.
What is an unwritten constitution?
A system restricted to protecting natural rights that
does not interfere with other aspects of life.
What is a limited government?
This practice occurred throughout the colonies and was used to provide labor for plantations, farms, and household work.
What is slavery,
By 1776 Americans could
look back on more than 150 years
of experience with this form of government.
What is local self-government?
A form of government the Founders preferred, based on their readings of history and personal experiences.
What is a representative or republican form of government?
The Founders believed the newly independent United States of America should be limited by the higher law.
What is a written constitution?
The British legislature, which consists of two houses: the House of Lords, which once represented the nobility, and the House of Commons, which formally represent the common people.
What ia Parliamenr?
New England farmers relied on what rather than slaves to assist with maintaining their farms and homes?
What is an indentured servant?
English philosopher John Locke summarized three natural rights that others must respect.
What is “life, liberty, and estate”?
Montesquieu cited which country as an example of a mixed constitution?
What is England?
Government limited by the provisions of the Constitution.
What is limited government?
The basis of a form of government in which
power is divided among different branches.
What is a mixed constitution?
Two main diverse backgrounds settling in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
The Founders learned about English Law from this published jurist.
Who is the English jurist William
Blackstone?
True or False:
Aristotle referred to polity as a form of
government that is ruled by the people.
False.
Aristotle referred to polity as a “mixed” form of government (or “mixed constitution”) because it incorporates elements of democracy and oligarchy.
Autocracy, dictatorship, or totalitarianism are often used to describe a type of government.
What is tyranny?