Antiquity
1776 — 1789
Politics & Persuasion
Enlighten Up
Political Terminology
100
The most "philosophical" of statesman, according to Plutarch.
Who is Lycurgus?
100
The subject matter of Article I of the Constitution.
What is the legislative branch?
100
The three elements of persuasive rhetoric, according to Aristotle.
What are logos, pathos, ethos?
100
The benchmark of political legitimacy, according to Locke and Rousseau
What is Natural Law?
100
A regime ruled by the wealthy few, according to Plato's Republic.
What is a oligarchy?
200
The occasion for Pericles' speech.
What is a funeral? Or What is the Peloponnesian War?
200
The precursor to the Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
200
"A necessary evil," according to Thomas Paine.
What is government?
200
For a Lockean, the two things that a government must protect.
What are liberty and property?
200
The general doctrine whereby government is created by—and subject to—the will of the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
The kind of "beast" we all are, at least according to Aristotle.
What is a political animal?
300
The primary subject of Madison's 10th Federalist paper.
What is a faction? What is factionalism?
300
The fearless leader who told us "we having nothing to fear but fear itself."
Who is FDR?
300
What corrupted man, according to Rousseau
What is society?
300
What democratic societies have to fear, according to Tocqueville.
What is the tyranny of the majority? What is conformity?
400
The "true form" or counterpart to democracy, for Aristotle.
What is a constitutional government?
400
The document designed to quiet down anti-Federalist malcontents, like Brutus.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
A "groovy" metaphor for the United States of America, or so said Frederick Douglass.
What is a stream?
400
The method by which we rightfully acquire property, according to Locke.
What is labor?
400
The idea of splitting political power between a large group and smaller groups.
What is federalism?
500
The most "democratic" of garments, according to Socrates. (A metaphor for democracy...)
What is a many-colored cloak?
500
The constitutional system designed to keep one branch of the government from getting too much power.
What is (are) checks and balances?
500
The "hobgoblin of little minds," according to Emerson.
What is consistency?
500
The third most famous contract theorist besides Locke and Rousseau.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
500
One additional requirement for "freedom and security," according to Paine, but necessarily according to Locke.
What is republicanism?
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