Politics
Regime Type
Historical Background
Our Government
Fill in the ____
100

Politics is about this fundamental question.

Who rules? 

100

Rule of the one.

What is monarchy or dictatorship?

100

This man principally authored the Declaration of Independence. 

Who is Thomas Jefferson? 

100

These are the three branches of government.

What are the executive, judiciary, and legislative? 

100

We hold these truths to be self-evident: ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______.  

What is, "that all men are created equal?"
200

This philosopher's Politics provided the first scientific framework for studying politics.

Who is Aristotle? 

200

Rule of the few.

What is oligarchy or aristocracy? 

200

This war forced Parliament to tighten its hold on the colonies. 

What is the French and Indian War? 

200

According to this scheme of avoiding tyranny, the president can veto the legislative and the legislative can impeach the president. 

What are checks and balances? 

200

Like Locke, the Declaration identifies these three "unalienable rights."

What are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?" 

300

This three part distinction helps classify types of regime.

What is the one, the many, and the few. 

300

Rule of the many.

What is democracy or republic? 

300

Before Lexington and Concord, rebellion in the colonies emerged as a reaction to these types of laws.

What are taxes? 

300

Montesquieu pronounced the concentration of powers in one hand the very essence of tyranny. By breaking up the functions of government, the founders achieved this.

What is the separation of powers/function? 

300

The signers of the Declaration put much on the line when they pledged these things. 

What are their "lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?"

400

Individual persons are not political, but these are.

What are groups or communities? 

400

Aristotle would have called our government, combining many types of rule, this type of regime.

What is a mixed regime? 

400
Independence was voted into being on this day but declared on this day.

What are July 2 and 4, 1776? 

400

Our regime is often called an indirect democracy or this?

What is republic/democratic republic? 

400

The Declaration's natural rights political science was drawn from his study of these. 

What are the laws of nature? 

500

The presidency was invented by this regime.

What is the United States of America? 

500

Besides the number of men involved, Aristotle makes this distinction between governments.

What are good and bad? 

500

The first of these failed to build unity; but the second made a Revolution. 

What are Continental Congresses? 

500

According to the Declaration, our government is constituted to "secure" these.

What are rights or natural rights?

500

The Declaration said of an oppressed people that "it is their ______, it is their ______, to throw off such government."

What is "right" and "duty?"

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