Unit 1
complex of offices, personnel, and processes by which a state is ruled
What is government?
Unitary government is...
What is a centralized government where all citizens of said territory look to the central government?
United States type of government
What is democracy?
The reason government is necessary
What is to maintain order, balance, and happiness of the people living in the territory?
The concerns of Anti-Federalists
What is the fear of an overly powerful government?
A body of people living in a defined territory, organizaed politically and having the power to make and enforce laws without the consent of higher authority
What is a state?
The difference between federal government and confederation
What is...
- the federal government shares powers between the central government and several local governments
- the confederation is an alliance of independent states
a. A recognition of the fundamental worth and dignity of every person
b. A respect for the equality of all persons
c. A faith in majority rule and an insistence upon minority rights
d. An acceptance of the necessity of compromise
e. An insistence upon the widest possible degree of individual freedom.
What are the challenges that the government needs to consider?
The concept of representative government
What is it lives to serve the people and their best interests?
Federalists who wrote the Federalists Papers?
Who are...
- Alexander Hamilton
- James Madison
- John Jay
The origins of the state (the 4 theories)
What is
- the force theory
- evolutionary theory
- the divine right
- the social contract?
The two types of relationships between the executive branch and the legislature
What is
- the presidential government
- parliamentary government
The only time citizens are forced to do something or comply with the government
What is when it is in the best interest of the general public?
The Declaration of Rights was signed when?
What is July 4, 1776?
The "winner" of Federalist v Anti-Federalist
Federalists
The purpose of government (list at least two)
- to form a more perfect union
- to establish justice
- to insure domestic tranquility
- to provide for the common defense
- to promote the general welfare
- to secure the blessings of liberty
Signs of a dictatorship in government?
Compromises between two different parties are always necessary, true or false
What is false?
The first form of American government
What is a confederation? (Supported by the Articles of the Confederation)
How the Federalists convinced the Anti-Federalists that they needed to replace the Articles of Confederation
What are the Constitution and the Bill of Rights/Amendments?
In the United States, this is the document that the government refers to for the law.
What is the Constitution?
Small group of people elected by the people to act on their behalf to express their popular will. They are held accountable to the people through elections.
What is the representative democracy?
Bonus, what's the other democracy?
Total absence of government
What is anarchy?
The weaknesses of the Articles
What is...
- could not enforce the law
- country was defenseless from internal and external threats
- could not agree on laws
- currency and treaties were too hard to maintain
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