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Any person born on American soil is automatically an American citizen.
What is the Law of Soil?
Laws should punish wrongdoers and reward those who are good
What is the Ethical Idea of Justice?
Someone who comes to the
U.S. to live
What is an immigrant?
Duties that are not enforced by law
What is responsibility?
Randomly selected to receive a “summons” an order to appear in court to serve as a juror
What is a Jury Duty?
Outlined who was a citizen inside of the US Constitution
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Greek city-state, which were self-governing communities
What are polls?
Each part of the government that has different powers
What is Separation of Powers?
Citizens 18 years or older carefully choose their representatives
What is Voting?
A baby born in another country and both parents are American citizens, and at least one has lived in the US for some time
What is Law of Blood?
A formal written request to government officials to make some changes
What is Petitioning the Government?
A country with a written constitution and governed by elected representatives
What is the Constitutional Republic?
An Ancient society that influenced our founding fathers to create a representative democracy (republic).
What is Ancient Rome?
Pay taxes, obey the laws, register with Selective Service, serve on a jury
What is an Obligation?
A person granted full rights and responsibilities as a member of a nation
What is a Citizen?
Based on Jewish and Christian beliefs and practices
What is Judeo-Christian Tradition?
An individual can share their views with a wider audience in hopes of winning an elected office
What is Running for Office?
Government officials unfairly mistreating citizens
What is an Arbitrary & Abusive Use Power?
A person who acquires citizenship through the naturalization process
What is a Naturalized citizen?
A person should remain informed and provide their views to government leaders who make decisions.
What is Attending Civic Meetings?
The powers of the
government should have
limits.
What is Limited government?
Good for the community as a whole
What is the Common Good?
Someone who is a US citizen at birth
What is a Natural Born Citizen?
Every person is born with certain basic rights, such as life, liberty, and property.
What are Natural Rights?
A person cannot have his or
her life, liberty, or property
taken away without a fair
process like a trial.
What is Due Process of law?
Served as an example of self-government and consent of the governed.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
No one is above the law
What is the Rule of Law?
People should elect their own
representatives to govern them.
What is Representative Self-government?
Great Charter
What is the Magna Carter?
Accountability to the law, Fair procedures, Decisions based on the law, transparency of institutions, Consistent application and enforcement of the law,
What is the Five Key Principles of Rule of the Law?
Laws of a community must be passed with the agreement of its members.
What is consent of the governed?
Colonists were influenced by ideas that applied to human reasoning and scientific thinking to improve society instead of following tradition
What is Enlightenment Ideas?
An agreement between the people and rulers (the government). The people obey their ruler, and as part of the agreement, the ruler protects individual rights
What is a Social Contract?
The Enlightenment thinker who believed that nature contained laws and rights that people are born with and should enjoy.
Who is John Locke?
According to John Locke, which agreement did individuals enter into when forming their own society?
What is a Social Contract?
The Enlightenment thinker who felt that societies work best when there was a separation of government powers.
Who is Montesquieu?