Types of Governments
Students at NDHS vote directly for their homecoming theme. This is an example of which type of government.
What is a direct democracy?
This principle of government happens when one branch ensures that another is not abusing their power.
What are checks and balances?
Passing laws under this government was extremely difficult because it required all 13 states to agree.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution, called this, were added as a compromise between Federalists and Anti-federalists.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the acronym that we associated with the purposes of government, which is typically associated with sports.
Students at NDHS elect representatives to student government to make decisions about all the students in the building. This is an example of which type of government.
What is representative democracy or republic?
This principle of government is ensured by the division of power between the three branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
This person wrote the majority of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
This was a compromise created by Roger Sherman that appeased both small and large states and set up a bi-cameral legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
What is a public service?
This form of government allows citizens to vote on every law and political issue.
What is a direct democracy?
This principle of government says that even people that make the laws must follow them.
What is rule of law?
"We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" - The Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson gets this quote from this Enlightenment thinker.
This Compromise appeased Northern and Southern states by counting slaves as less than one person in the Census.
What is the 3/5ths compromise?
The Navy and all other branches of the military fall under this purpose of government.
What is national security?
The ability to create public schools and public school curriculum falls to this level of government?
What is state government?
This principle of government separates the powers of government between the local, state, and federal level.
What is federalism?
This revolt by farmers in Massachusetts made it clear that the federal government was too weak.
What is Shays Rebellion?
This Compromise stated that the federal government could control trade and allowed the slave trade to continue until 1808.
Police officers and laws are examples of this purpose of government.
What is maintaining social order?
In this form of government, a single person holds all the power and rule absolutely.
What is an authoritarian government?
Voting is an example of this principle of government which simply means consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
The Constitution is often called this type of document because it can be changed at any time through the amendment process.
What is a "living document"?
This Compromise set up a system to elect the president.
What is the electoral college compromise?
Negotiating a trade agreement with a foreign country falls under this purpose of government.
What is economic?