Chapter 1
This sets forth the structure and power of a government
What is a Constitution?
A citizen that does things for the good of the community has this.
What is Civic Virtue?
The inalienable rights as stated by John Locke
What are life, liberty, estate?
The event that brought about a new focus on an individual's relationship with god and religion.
What is the Reformation?
The idea that everyone in a country must follow the same laws.
What is Rule of Law?
What is a Monarchy?
What is Classical Republicanism?
The idea that the political power rests with the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The invention that allowed people across the world to read and interpret the bible.
What is the Printing Press?
The English document from 1215 whose principles were rule of law, basic rights, and government by contract.
What is the Magna Carta?
A representative government that typically has democratic values.
What is a Republic?
The belief that the youth should be educated to learn civic virtue and proper habits good for society
What is Moral Education?
The purpose of government in Natural Rights Theory.
What is to protect individual rights?
The new system that allowed people to choose their own jobs and business.
What is Capitalism?
This right allows people to prove their innocence to a group of their peers.
What is Trial by Jury?
A form of government where citizens directly participate in government
What is a democracy?
In a classical republican society, this is the most important thing.
What is the common good?
The founder of Natural Rights Theory.
Who is John Locke?
This event lead to the use of science and study to influence government.
What is the Enlightenment?
An order for an official to explain why a person is being held.
What is a Writ of Habeas Corpus?
This can only be changed with the consent of the people, limits the power of government, establishes the responsibility of the government, and sets for the rights of citizens
What is a Higher Law?
This is where the ideas of Classical Republicanism originated.
The ability to change a government if it does not protect the rights of the people.
What is Right to Revolution?
The system popular in the Middle Ages that was very strictly hierarchical and people had very little social mobility.
What is Feudalism?
"Let the precedent stand"
What is stare decisis?