Enlightenment thinkers
This Enlightenment thinker believed people are born with natural rights such as life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This principle means that government gets its authority from the people.
What is "consent of the governed"?
Federalist No. 10 is primarily concerned with this problem caused by groups with competing interests.
What are factions?
This case involved the Fourth Amendment and unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This Enlightenment thinker believed government power should be divided among different branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
The Great Compromise created this type of legislature for Congress.
What is a bicameral legislature?
Federalist No. 10 supported this type of government in which citizens elect people to make decisions for them.
What is representative government?
This case established that police must inform people in custody of certain constitutional rights.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
This amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
This author wrote Common Sense and argued against monarchy.
Who is Thomas Paine?
The House of Representatives uses this to determine how many representatives each state receives.
What is population?
Federalist No. 39 discusses the balance between the national government and this level of government.
What are state governments?
This case involved the right to an attorney for defendants who cannot afford one.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
This amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This Founding Father was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and was influenced by John Locke.
Who is THomas Jefferson?
This constitutional principle divides power between the national government and state governments.
What is federalism?
Federalist No. 51 argues that government should be designed so that the branches can do this to one another.
What is check and balance each other?
This case involved freedom of speech and whether speech could be limited during wartime.
What is Schenck v. United States?
A citizen writes to a government official asking that a law be changed. Which First Amendment right is being used?
What is the right to petition?
Locke's idea that people agree to create a government and give it authority is called this.
What is a social contract?
Jefferson's belief that state governments should retain significant power reflected this general view of government.
What is limited national government/stronger state governments?
Complete this famous Federalist No. 51 idea: "If men were ________, no government would be necessary."
What is angels?
This case involved school-sponsored prayer and the First Amendment.
What is Engel v. Vitale?
This Supreme Court case connected a right to privacy with protections under the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Roe v. Wade?