1.1 Influential Cultures
This Greek term translates "Rule by the People"
Democracy
This document helped establish British citizens freedoms and liberties, like the right to bear arms.
English Bill of Rights
Philosopher John Locke believed these things are unalienable life, liberty and property.
Natural rights
This act was a part of the intolerable acts, in which British officer were allowed to stay in colonist homes legally.
Quarter Act
This is the term used to describe the introduction of the Declaration of Independence.
This is the number of states needed to amend the Articles of Confederation.
13 States
A vetoed bill is being overridden by congress with a 2/3 majority vote, making the vetoed bill a law without the president approval.
Legislative checking Executive
This group of people want to get the U.S. Constitution ratified.
Federalist
This Judeo-Christian ideal states, no one is above the law. even individuals in power.
Rule of law
This English document demonstrated limited government, as it places restrictions on the English Monarchy.
Magna Carta
The executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch demonstrates this Montesquieu's ideal.
Separation of power
This law placed a tax on all paper goods in the colonies.
Stamp act
What influential thinker influenced the founding fathers based on the excerpt below.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
John Locke
The articles had this many branches of government and was called this.
1 and Legislative Branch
Congress passed a green bill that improves air quality by putting restrictions on carbon emissions on large factories, but before the bill becomes a law the president vetoes the bill.
Executive checking Legislative
This group wanted weak federal government and strong state government.
Anti-Federalist
Ancient Rome and the United States share this type of government.
Republic or Representative Democracy
This document was created on ship traveling over the Atlantic Ocean demonstrates the idea of self-government.
Mayflower Compact
This is an agreement between the people and the sovreign.
Social contract
This is list of punishing acts present to the colonist in Boston following the Boston Tea party.
Coercive acts or Intolerable acts
This list of complaints toward the George III is known as this term.
Grievances
Under the Articles of Confederation, the country had hard time stopping Shay's rebellion because they lacked this.
A national military
The president passes an executive order to have citizens turn in all privately owned firearms to their local law enforcement. The Supreme Court find this order unconstitutional and removes it.
Judicial checking Executive
"But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
Is from this group.
Federalist
Just like U.S. this ancient culture also had a senate.
Ancient Rome
This pamphlet encouraged many colonists to consider independence from Britian, as it explained injustices the king had committed and the positives that will come from gaining independence.
Common Sense
What ideal from Montesquieu is demonstrated below: The legislative branch passed a bill through both chambers. It now arrives on the President's desk. The President can pass it or veto it.
If the president veto it, Congress can override the veto with a 2/3 vote of Congress.
Checks and balances
What tactic did colonist use to protest the increase of taxes on goods and services.
Boycott
The Declaration 0f Independence was written at what conference.
Second continental congress
The United States had hard time paying off the war debt following the American revolution, since it can't do this.
Collecting taxes
In the 1850s, the U.S. Supreme court ruled that African American were not consider American citizens, Congress later passed an amendment to grant citizenship to individual by birth rite or naturalization.
Legislative checking Judicial
The Anti-federalist will side with the federalist if they add this document to the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
In this type of government citizens directly participate in law making.
Direct Democracy
“And as he hath shown himself such an…enemy to liberty, and discovered such a thirst for…power, is he, or is he not, a proper man to say to these colonies, ‘You shall make no laws but what I please?’”
Is from this document.
Common Sense
In the writing of the Declaration of Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson grew heavy inspiration from this Enlightenment thinker.
John Locke
This lowered the price of tea, but allowed only the British East tea Company to sell it's tea in the colonies.
Tea Act
This grievance is direct result from this.
"For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us"
Quarter Act
The lack of this thing made it nearly impossible to enforce federal legislation across the nation.
Executive Branch or President.
Congress passes a law that aims to censor individual from posting on any social media platform, the Supreme court interprets this law a violation to the 1st amendment and removes the law.
Judicial checking Legislative
"This new national government will have the power to overwhelm the states and exercise tyranny over the people"
Anti-Federalist