The Enlightenment (1.1)
What enlightenment thinker came up with natural rights?
John Locke
What is an official recognized member of a nation or country called?
A Citizen
What form of government is ruled by one person?
Autocracy, Dictatorship
What system of government do we have in the U.S. under the Constitution?
Federal
Said that the American colonists should leave Great Britain and become independent, since it made sense...
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Who was responsible for Separation of Powers and creating three branches of government?
Montesquieu
How many years of residence does someone applying for citizenship have to have in order to be naturalized?
5 years
What type of democracy do we have in large populated nations? (like the U.S.)
Representative Democracy
What system ruled over the U.S. with the Articles of Confederation during the Revolutionary War?
Confederal
Gave English freemen the right to trial by jury and limited the king's power for the first time
Magna Carta
Jefferson would copy much of Locke's ideas. Especially when writing the famous lines of the Declaration of Independence. What were those lines?
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
If you were born in Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands you would be a U.S. citizen by what law or rule?
Law of Soil (Being born in the U.S. or any of its territories)
What type of democracy did Ancient Athens have, since they had smaller population of citizens who all voted?
Direct Democracy
Countries like the UK, Japan, Latin American democracies, have this system of government...
Unitary
No cruel or unusual punishment, the right to petition, assembly are just some rights we borrowed from what influential document?
English Bill of Rights
What concept says that people give the government power and authority to rule over them in exchange for the government's protection and upholding their rights?
Social Contract
If your parents were born in the U.S. but you were born in Germany, why would you be able to have U.S. citizenship still?
By Law of Blood (that your parents were U.S. citizens you will become a citizen too)
When a few or a small group of people (like business leaders, military officers, or aristocratic families) rule a whole country, it is called a...
Oligarchy
Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and India have what system of government?
Federal
Created the concept of self-government and also an example of social contract early on in the colonies that would become part of the U.S. later on
Mayflower Compact
Who first came up with the idea of social contract?
Thomas Hobbes
Name something you have to attend, unless you have a valid excuse, as a voting U.S citizen?
Jury Duty
What type of monarchy is ruled by a king or queen that has no real power, but are figureheads, or fancy symbols of leadership of the country. Since the power is now shared or given to the people's government.
Constitutional Monarchy
In the federal system the national government is "supreme" and above the states, but powers are shared, these powers are called...
concurrent powers
The concept of no excessive (or overpriced) bail came from which influential document?
English Bill of Rights