Types of Government
This is what we would call the United States
What is a Representative Democracy?
This describes the hypothetical world that existed before governments
What is the State of Nature?
The Declaration of Independence separated the United States from this country
What is the United Kingdom?
A power of the Federal government under the Articles of Confederation
What is borrowing money, making laws, declaring war, or engaging in diplomacy?
A change to the Constitution
What is an Amendment?
We classify governments based on who gets to make this inside the government
What are decisions?
This theory explains why people willingly give their freedom up to the government
What is Social Contract Theory?
The Declaration of Independence argued that men have the right to alter or abolish their government if it abuses them... an idea first proposed by this man
Who is John Locke?
A power given to the States under the Articles of Confederation
Raise taxes, raise armies, coin money, make laws, enforce laws, etc.
This gives us the right to freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion, and petition
What is the 1st amendment?
This is an example of a modern dictatorship
What is North Korea, China, Russia, etc. etc. etc.
This man argued that people were inherently good, but immediately corrupted once they met another person
Who was Rousseau?
This was one specific grievance listed in the Declaration of Independence
There are like twenty seven of these of course I didn't list them here
Because the States held more power than the Federal government, we would describe the Articles of Confederation as this
What is decentralized government?
This political party wanted the Bill of Rights to protect us from the Federal government
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
We would call the United Kingdom this because it elects its leaders AND has a King
What is a Representative Democracy and Monarchy?
It was in this book that Thomas Hobbes argued that all men were evil and needed an all powerful dictator to keep them in order
What is the "Leviathan?"
The Declaration of Independence famously claims that all men are this
What is created equal with certain unalienable rights?
This rebellion convinced most Americans that it was time to abandon the Articles of Confederation
What was Shay's rebellion?
This is the least relevant amendment in the Bill of Rights today
What is the 3rd amendment?
A type of government where leaders are elected through lottery
What is sortition?
John Locke argued that all men had these three inalienable rights
What is Life, Liberty, and Property?
It made laws for the American colonies, but Americans couldn't participate in it
What was the British Parliament?
This political party wanted to replace the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution
Who are the Federalists?
The Bill of Rights was written by this founding father
Who is James Madison?