Founding Government Principles
These rights of this English philosopher are key American government principles that are laid out in the Declaration of Independence.
What are John Locke's natural rights of life, liberty, and property (changed to pursuit of happiness)?
This type of government is what is set up in the U.S. Constitution.
What is a federal system of representative (republican) democracy?
This branch of the U.S. Federal Government has the primary responsibility to make federal laws, is made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and has the power to declare war.
This amendment gives all U.S. citizens the freedom of speech, religion, the press, and the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government.
What is the First Amendment?
This current political party in the US has a conservative ideology.
What is the Republican Party?
This is what a government must have in order for it to be legitimate.
What is consent of the governed?
This was added to the Constitution in order to protect the individual rights of people from the government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the check that the executive branch has over the legislative branch which prevents a bill from being signed into law.
What is a Presidential veto?
This amendment outlines a person's right to due process of the law, right to a trial by jury, no self-incrimination, and no double jeopardy.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This is the amount of votes that a candidate must win in order to secure their bid for the United States Presidency.
What is 270 electoral votes?
This is what rule of law means.
What is the principle that nobody is above the law, so everyone must obey the law and be held accountable if they violate it?
This group of people supported the passing of the U.S. Constitution and favored a strong, central government.
Who are the Federalists?
These are the powers that the federal government has interpreted as being given to them, even though they're not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution.
What are implied powers?
The Fourth Amendment would protect you from this.
What is unreasonable search and seizure of your property without probable cause or a warrant?
Citizenship is related to voting in this way.
What is only US citizens have the right to vote?
This is whenever government leaders and lawmakers have to abide by rules established in a constitution.
What is limited government?
This compromise was the result of the blending of the Virginia and New Jersey Plans, which established this kind of legislature that satisfied the conflict between states with large and small populations because of this set up.
What is the Connecticut/Great Compromise that established the bicameral legislature that featured the representation of one house (Senate) based on equality with each state having 2 senators no matter the size of their population, and the representation of the other house (House of Representatives) based on the size of each state's population.
This congressional committee is made up of members from both houses of Congress.
What is a joint committee?
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments relate to U.S. citizenship by these means.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment redefines citizenship to be given to anyone born on U.S. soil, and the Fifteenth Amendment gives all male U.S. citizens the right to vote?
This current US political party would support more federal government programs that are aimed to protect the environment, provide wider access to healthcare insurance, and increased consumer-protecting business regulations.
What is the Democratic Party?
This is the term for the power of the government being divided among different groups, and this is the term for these groups possessing the ability to limit the power of the other groups by having certain powers over one another.
What is separation of powers and the checks and balances?
The supremacy clause states this.
What is no state law can overrule or trump a federal law, as it is the supreme law of the land?
The judicial branch is set up in this article of the Constitution, has this responsibility with the laws, and has this body as holding the highest level of authority in the United States court system.
What is the 3rd article, the responsibility to interpret the laws, and the Supreme Court?
Historically, women in the United States argued that the Fourteenth Amendment gave them this right.
What is the right to vote?
Closed primary elections allow for these kinds of people to vote in them.
Who are people registered as a specific political party? (ex: only registered Democrats can vote in the Democratic closed primary election)