Mid Writing
From the Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain ____________________, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
What are unalienable rights?
Citizens have the power to decide on policy, and politicians merely implement their decisions.
What is participatory democracy?
The plan for the first government of the United States, which lacked the power to tax or raise armies.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The group during the Ratification debate who argued for local democracy and powers reserved to the States.
Who are Anti-Federalists?
The fundamental principle referred to in this passage from Federalist No. 51:
"In order to lay a due foundation for that separate and distinct exercise of the different powers of government... each department should have a will of its own."
What is separation of powers?
From the Second Treatise of Government:
"To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider the __________ state of man, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions."
What is natural?
The idea that a government's power cannot be absolute.
What is limited government?
The basis for dividing up representation in the Virginia Plan.
What is state population?
The three authors of the Federalist Papers.
Who are Hamilton, Madison, and Jay?
In Federalist No 10, Madison argues that a large republic will control the inherent dangers of ______.
What are factions?
From the Declaration of Independence:
"...a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the _________ which impel them to the separation.”
What are causes?
Policy-making is determing by a small number of individuals, groups, or businesses.
What is elite democracy?
The fraction of States which must ratify an Amendment for it to be formally adopted.
What is 3/4?
An uprising in western Massachusetts over high taxes, demonstrating the weakness of the United States' first government.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The fundamental principle referred to in this passage from Federalist No. 10:
"The federal Constitution forms a happy combination... the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular [interests] to the State legislatures."
What is Federalism?
From the Second Treatise of Government:
"...Men, when they enter into ___________, give up the equality, liberty, and executive power they had in the state of Nature."
What is society?
An implicit agreement among the people in a society to give up some freedoms to maintain order.
What is the social contract?
The specific Article within the Constitution that describes the Amendment Process.
What is Article V?
The constitutional principle reflected in this quote:
"What often gets lost in translation is how dynamic the competition among the branches of government has been, and how much stronger we are as a country because of that ongoing debate."
Linda Leali
What is Checks and Balances?
Brutus No. 1 quotes this philosopher to support the author's argument that a small republic is best.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
From the Second Treatise of Government:
"The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of _____________."
What is property?
People with common interests form groups to promote their causes and influence policy.
What is pluralist democracy?
The euphemistic phrase within the Constitution's 3/5 Compromise that refers to enslaved persons.
What is "all other persons"?
The specific clause within the Constitution that says the national Constitution takes precedence over State laws when they conflict.
What is the Supremacy Clause? (Article VI)
The fundamental principle referred to in this passage from Brutus No. 1:
"The great officers of government would soon become above the control of the people, and abuse their power to the purpose of aggrandizing themselves..."
What is Limited Government?