Foundations of Government
The belief that rights such as life, liberty, and property are natural and cannot be taken away.
What are inalienable rights?
This tradition emphasized the common good and civic virtue.
What is Classical Republicanism?
This document added protection for individual rights after the Constitution was written.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A system where power is divided between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
In a democracy, the majority cannot do this to minority groups.
What is deprive them of rights?
Philosopher who believed government’s main job was to protect individual rights.
Who is John Locke?
This tradition emphasized individual rights and freedoms.
What is Classical Liberalism?
The Framers borrowed ideas from Greece, Rome, and these Enlightenment thinkers.
Who are Rousseau and Locke?
A government where all power is in one central authority.
What is a unitary government?
Democracy values the worth of each individual, equality of all persons, and this.
What is compromise?
The idea that government’s power comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
Believing you should pay taxes is an example of this tradition.
What is Classical Republicanism?
The Petition of Right and English Bill of Rights influenced this U.S. document.
What is the Constitution?
In this system, sovereignty rests with individual states, like the early U.S. under the Articles of Confederation.
What is a confederacy?
A representative democracy includes federalism, separation of powers, and this principle.
What is popular sovereignty?
The document that first declared the American colonies’ independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Freedom of speech is an example of this tradition.
What is Classical Liberalism?
This document states that people can abolish abusive government.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Sovereignty in a dictatorship rests with this group.
What is a small group or one person?
In a democracy, the minority always has the right to do this.
What is be heard (or criticize the majority)?
The “Father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
The philosopher who wrote about the “social contract.”
Who is Rousseau?
The idea of separating government into legislative, executive, and judicial powers.
What is separation of powers?
Britain is NOT an example of this type of system, though some think it is.
What is a federal system?
All political powers concentrated at the central level describe this form of government.
What is a unitary government?