Social Contract
While John Locke's theories of the Social Contract were used more by the Founding Fathers, this Enlightenment thinking technically came first
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This Article of the Constitution details the Legislative Branch.
What is Article 1?
These are powers that both State governments and the Federal government can use
What are Concurrent (Shared) Powers?
While it wasn't always true, you currently have to be this age to vote in American elections
What is 18 years old?
This international organization was created in 1949 to defend against perceived threats from the Soviet Union.
What is NATO?
This Virginian Founding Father is considered the Father of the Declaration of Independence. He later became Vice President and then President.
Who was Thomas Jefferson
This Founding Father wrote the majority of the Federalist Papers, the essays published promoting the new Constitution
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
What is the General Court?
This phenomenon is not necessarily bad, but it is important to recognize when watching or reading the news.
What is Media Bias?
This foreign policy ideology became a standard in the interwar years between WWI and WWII.
What is Isolationism?
A State needs a Population, Territory, a Government, and, perhaps most importantly, this final characteristic.
What is Sovereignty?
New York and Virginia were the key holdouts to the original Ratification of the Constitution, but it was actually this state that was the necessary 9th vote.
What was New Hampshire?
This Amendment in the Bill of Rights enshrines the idea of Federalism
What is the 10th Amendment?
These types of elections don't happen often and don't even include ballots a lot of the time, but they are used to help narrow down candidates.
What are Caucuses?
This process involves two feuding nations or groups, and it is hopefully settled by some sort of independent third party.
What is Mediation?
This type of government can take lots of different forms, but is defined by a system of governance organized around a few select elites of society.
What is an oligarchy?
Be it via a Constitutional Convention or a vote within the State Legislatures, a proposed Amendment needs this many States to pass it to be added to the Constitution.
What are 3/4?
Only New Hampshire and Vermont have this term length for their governors.
What is a 2-year term?
This state is one of two that do not automatically give all of their Electoral College votes to the winner of their Presidential election
What are Maine or Nebraska?
The World Health Organization has all but eradicated this disease, paralysing or killing nearly half a million people every year globally in the 20th Century, to only 2 recorded cases in 2021.
What is Polio?
A reluctant leader, this person warned against partisan politics as well as foreign intervention
Who was George Washington?
While being Constitutionally limited to two terms by the 22nd Amendment, a President can technically serve for this many years.
What is 10 years?
This is where the majority of the state of New Hampshire's education funding comes from
What are property taxes?
Sharing its name with its founder, Theodore Roosevelt, this splinter third party was named after Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt by having the bullet slowed down by a folded speech in his pocket.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
This international trade agreement was superseded in 2018 by the first Trump Administration
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?