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 is a part of the intolerable acts, in which British officer were allow 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
The veto 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 legislative plan suggested a single house legislature where every state has equal representation.
New Jersey Plan
This branch of government includes the President, Vice President, and Cabinet.
Executive Branch
Which branch of government is responsible for making laws.
Legislative Branch
Which branch of government has the power to enforce laws.
Executive Branch
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 from 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
This legislative plan suggested a two-house legislature where delegates/seats are awarded based on state's population size. Favored by larger states.
Virginia Plan
This branch of government creates the Supreme Court
Judicial Branch
Which branch of government is responsible for interpreting the laws.
Judicial Branch
This branch has the power of judicial review.
Judicial Branch
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 U.S. to turn in all U.S. citizen’s 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
This was an agreement reached by two opposing sides. Creating a two-house legislative plan where the lower house is based on states population and the upper house is based on equal representation.
The Great Compromise
This branch of government creates Congress
Legislative Branch
The power of veto belongs to what branch of government.
2X points for title/structure (need both answers)
Executive Branch
President
This branch of government can declare war.
2X points for title/structure (need both answers)
Legislative Branch
Congress
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
This was an agreement on how to count the enslaved population in the U.S..
The 3/5 compromise.
This structure of government has 9 members called the Justice(s).
The Supreme Court
This branch of control the U.S. military armed forces.
2X points for title/structure (need both answers)
Executive Branch
President
This branch of government can appoint individuals to non-elected government jobs.
2X points for title/structure (need both answers)
Executive Branch
President
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
The idea from Rousse, that people give the government permission to rule over them is known as.
Popular Sovereignty
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 aim is 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
How many branches of government will be produced under the new proposed constitution? and the title for each branch?
3
Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branch
This structure of government has 435 members, member per each state vary on states population.
The House of Representative
This branch of government can bring up impeachment charges against a government official.
2X points for title/structure (need both answers)
Legislative Branch
House of Representatives
This branch of government is responsible for holding impeachment trials.
2X points for title/structure (need both answers)
Legislative Branch
Senate