Vocabulary
When it is believed that the a ruler is selected by a Supreme Ruler to lead the people.
What is Divine Right of a King Theory?
How many states were represented in the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation?
What is 13?
In the central government there separation of powers that include the branches of .....
What are executive, legislative, and judicial?
It created an alliance among indigenous groups.
What is the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?
It did not have a ___________ to pay off debts.
What is a tax system?
They have the power to make laws.
The legislative branch.
The basic powers that every government is responsible for.
What is the establishment of justice, tranquility, and protection.
Politics is a _________whereas government is a ___________.
What is a process and system?
Supreme and absolute power over its territory and can decide its own public policies.
What is soverereignty?
The result of raising taxes and not providing a safety net for farmers in Massachusetts in 1787.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
The presidents appoints ____________ for lifetime terms.
What are Supreme Court judges?
The Declaration of Independence was written in response to the tyranny by ______________.
Who was King George III?
The Articles of Confederation were re-written because
What is a weak government, no tax system, and class conflict?
People themselves decide on public policy.
Direct democracy.
It was weak because it had no ___________ government.
What is central?
Laws that are based on religious beliefs.
What is a theocracy?
Unalienable rights.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
A government where democratic authority rests with ___________.
What is the people?
It was the first example of a democracy.
What is Athens?
The act of approving something.
What is ratification?
When people are selected to make public policy for the society.
What is representative democracy?
The rhetoric/language in the Declaration of Independence was designed to unite different______.
What are social classes?
The first and second amendments.
What are freedom of speech and the right to bear arms?
They developed the ideas for the Social Contract Theory.
Who are John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau?
The A of C was re written in ____________.
What is 1787?