Why Government?
The right to life, liberty, and property.
What are natural rights?
Tthe rulebook for a country’s government
What is the constitution?
A body of people, living in a defined space, with the power to make and enforce laws, and with an organization to do this.
What is a state?
Britain's tax on the colonists where they had to pay extra for paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
We hold these truths to be self-_____________
What is evident?
Before governments, where everyone had a right to everything.
What is the state of nature?
This means laws are fair, they’re enforced, and nobody is above the law.
What is the rule of law?
The group of people who are the members or citizens of a state.
What is population?
The King declared that all laws passed in the colonies had no effect.
What is the Declaratory Act?
that all men are created ______________
What is equal?
People agreed to give up some rights and power in exchange for protection.
What is a social contract?
Dviding power among several branches of government.
What is separation of power?
The area in which a state’s rule applies.
What is territory?
A tax on things the colonists couldn't make for themselves: paint, glass, paper, lead, and tea.
What is the Townshend Revenue Act?
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable ____________
What are rights?
Power with the people instead of a sovereign monarch.
What is democracy?
The citizens of a country give their permission to be governed by the country’s government, and they do this by voting.
What is consent of the governed?
The ability to rule absolutely within a territory.
What is sovereignty?
These acts forced certain colonists to let British troops live in their houses.
What are the Quartering Acts?
that among these are __________, __________. and the _________________ __ ___________________.
What are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Locke believed that people are born with a mind like a blank slate.
What is a tabula rasa?
Protecting the rights of small or unpopular groups regardless of what the majority believes.
What are rights of the minority?
The organization inside a state that controls the actions and policies of the state.
What is government?
In the 1770's, a series of laws cracked down on rebellious activity in Massachusetts colony.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just _________ from the ___________ of the governed
What are powers and consent?