Citizenship Detective
Define Obligation
What is something citizens must do according to the law?
Important idea from Baron de Montesquieu
What is separation of powers?
Define limited government
What is government power is limited?
Author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Document that replaced the Articles of Confederation
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Define system of government
What is how power is organized in a government?
Define Responsibility
What something citizens should do, but won't get in trouble if they don't?
Important ideas from John Locke
What is social contract and natural law (rights)?
Define due process of the law
What is all people are treated fairly and equally according to the law?
Purpose of the Declaration of Independence
America's first attempt at a government
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The system of government in the United States
Double your points!: The type of government in the United States
What is a federal system?
Double your points!: What is a republic?
Define naturalization
What is the process by which someone can become a U.S. citizen?
The natural rights according to John Locke
What is life, liberty, and property?
The main purpose of the Magna Carta
What is limit the power of the king of England?
Who was the Declaration of Independence addressed to
Who is King George III of England?
Group that wanted to ratify the U.S. Constitution without changes
Who are the Federalists?
System of government where power is shared between a central government and smaller state governments
What is a federal system?
The two types of citizens in the United States
What is natural born and naturalized?
Define rule of law
What is nobody is above the law?
The purposes of the English Bill of rights
(double points in you get both!!)
The unalienable rights
What is life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?
Group that insisted the Bill of Rights be added to the U.S. Constitution
Who are the Anti-federalists?
System of government where power is mostly held by smaller state governments
What is a confederation?
Identify if this person is a citizen. If so, identify if it is by Law of Blood or Law of Soil:
A man born in Canada to French parents.
What is not a citizen?
Culture that is considered the birthplace of democracy
What is Ancient Greece?
Why the Pilgrims wrote the Mayflower Compact
What is to establish self-government/set-up their new colony?
What can happen if the government breaks the social contract
What is the people can alter or abolish it?
Even that exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
What is Shay's Rebellion?
System if government where power is mostly held by a strong central government
What is a unitary system?
Identify if this person is a citizen. If so, identify if it is by Law of Blood or Law of Soil:
A woman born in Puerto Rico to Mexican parents
What is a citizen because of law of soil?
Culture that is known being a republic and establishing Rule of Law
What is Ancient Rome?
Main idea from Thomas Paine's Common Sense
What is representative self-government?
Grievance in the Declaration that directly addresses the Quartering Act
What is housing (quartering) soldiers in times of peace?
Two branches of government that did not exist under the Articles of Confederation
What are the executive (president) and Judicial (courts) branches?
Document that established the first Federal government in the world
What is the U.S. Constitution?