SS.7.CG.1.1 Ancient Greece/Rome/Judeo-Christian Tradition
The ancient Greek word for a city-state.
What is Polis?
What is natural rights?
This document was written in 1620 and established self-government & consent of the governed.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The idea that we must all following the same rules.
What is Rule of Law?
A tax on tea that led to the Boston Tea Party.
The vocabulary term for an introduction.
What is a Preamble?
The Articles of Confederation was a __________ system of government.
What is confederal?
The meaning of "preamble".
What is an introduction?
Those who favored the new Constitution.
What is Federalists?
Special laws and procedures that apply to minors.
What is Juvenile Law?
Everyone can see what is going on - proceedings and decisions by government bodies affecting our rights are made openly and in public, not in secret.
What is transparency of institutions?
Civic Participation, Voting Rights, Written Constitution, Polis, and Direct Democracy were all influences from...
What is Ancient Greece?
The idea that it is best to divide the powers of government into three parts.
What is separation of powers?
The document was written in 1776 and recommended that colonists declare their independence & establish a representative self-government.
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
The idea that we were all born with certain basic rights.
What are natural rights?
A tax on every official document.
What is the Stamp Act?
The vocabulary term for a complaint.
What is a grievance?
List four weaknesses of the A.o.C.
What is
- no power to tax
- no power to raise an army
- no power to enforce laws
- no executive branch (central leadership)
- no power to regulate trade
- 9 out of 13 states were needed to pass any new laws
- Unanimous consent (13/13 colonies) needed to change the Articles
The part of the Preamble that means "the citizens of the United States"/"Popular Sovereignty".
What is We The People?
Those who opposed the new Constitution.
What is Anti-Federalists?
The special laws and procedures that apply to the armed services.
What is Military Law?
Before the government can take away our life, liberty, or property, we are entitled to a fair and public "process" or hearing.
What is Due Process?
The basic rules of our government are written down in a document that everyone can read and that government officials must obey.
What is a written constitution?
The philosopher that came up with natural law, natural rights & social contract.
Who is John Locke?
This document was written in 1689 & promised to protect many individual rights, there would be no taxation without representation, no excessive punishments and speedy & fair jury trial.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The idea that our lives, liberty, and property cannot be taken away without a fair process such as a trial.
What is due process of law?
The policy that forced colonists to house soldiers in their barns and homes. (hint: 3rd amendment)
What is the Quartering Act?
The author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The only branch that existed under the A.o.C.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The term that means peace and calm inside the country.
What is Domestic Tranquility?
Those who strongly criticized the absence of a bill of rights in the Constitution.
What is Anti-Federalists?
Concerns the prosecution and punishment of individuals for crimes.
What is Criminal Law?
The law should be applied and enforced for everyone in the same way, no matter how poor or rich they are or where they come from.
What is Consistent Application?
Civic Participation, Rule of Law, Republicanism, Representative Government, and Separation of Powers were all influences from...
The philosopher that came up with separation of powers and checks & balances.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This document was written in 1215 & promised the right to justice, right to a fair trial, right to due process and created a limited government.
What is the Magna Carta?
The idea that we should be free to practice our own religion.
What is Protection of Religious Liberty?
Colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped chests of tea into the harbor as protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Name the category.
- "He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly..."
- "For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us..."
- "For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent..."
- "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury..."
- "For suspending our own Legislatures..."
What is the List of Colonial Grievances?
The number of colonies needed in order to change the Articles of Confederation. (hint: unanimous)
What is 13?
The vocabulary term that means the well-being (happiness, health, and good fortune) of the entire community.
What is general welfare?
The vocabulary term that means officially approved.
What is ratify?
Consists of the Constitution itself, including the Bill of Rights, and those federal laws that protect our rights under the Constitution.
What is Constitutional Law?
When a government official or institution reaches a decision, such as to punish someone accused of a crime...
What is Decisions are based on the law?
Ethical Ideas of Justice, Individual Worth, Rule of Law and Personal Responsibility are all influences from...
What is the Judeo-Christian tradition?
A group of people make an agreement to form a community. This community makes an agreement with a ruler and the members of the community promise to obey the ruler.
What is a social contract?
What is the name of the movement in Europe and America that was based on applying human reasoning and scientific thinking.
What is the Enlightenment?
The division of government into 3 branches.
What is separation of powers.
The act that stated that Parliament had the right to pass laws for the colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What are unalienable rights?
The rebellion where farmers & debtors attacked a state courthouse and demanded their freedom. There was no national army to stop its spread.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The vocabulary term for all future generations.
What is posterity?
Those that argued that if a stronger government were not soon adopted, the country might split apart or be invaded by foreign powers.
What is Federalists?
Laws passed by state legislatures.
What is Statutory Law?
The procedures used to decide whether an accused person has violated the law, or to settle a dispute between people or groups, should be impartial.
What is Fair Procedures?
The policy passed by Parliament to punish Boston for destroying chests of tea. (Boston Tea Party)
What are the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
The idea that government should be limited to specific powers and purposes.
What is limited government?
The vocabulary term that means to enforce laws fairly; to protect citizens from crime and injury.
What is Establish Justice?
The Federalists promised to add this document to win support for the Constitution (this helped persuade several states to ratify the Constitution).
What is the Bill of Rights?
Law based on customs, traditions, and prior court decisions (precedents) on similar cases.
What is Common Law?
We are legally responsible for our actions. No one is permitted to break the law without consequence. This even applies to our public officials.
What is Accountability to the Law?