Vocab
This is the people and system responsible for making and enforcing laws.
What is government?
Which purpose of government focuses on enforcing laws and keeping peace?
What is maintaining order?
In this form of government, citizens elect leaders.
What is a democracy?
This movement encouraged people to use reason to question government and traditional ideas.
What is the Enlightenment?
Who wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These are rights every person is born with that governments should protect.
What are natural rights?
Which purpose of government protects freedoms like freedom of speech?
What is protecting rights?
In this government, one ruler holds nearly all political power.
What is a dictatorship?
This philosopher believed people need a strong government to maintain order.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
On what date was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
What is July 4, 1776?
This idea says government gets its power from the permission of the people.
What is consent of the governed?
Roads, schools, and fire departments are examples of this purpose of government.
What is providing services?
This government is ruled by a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
This philosopher believed government should reflect the will of the people.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
Which section of the Declaration lists the colonists' complaints against King George III?
What are the Grievances?
This means the people are the ultimate source of political power.
What is popular sovereignty?
This purpose of government focuses on making decisions that benefit everyone.
What is promoting the common good?
A small group of people controls the government.
What is an oligarchy?
According to Locke, if a government fails to protect rights, people have this.
What is the Right to Revolution?
The Declaration announced that the American colonies were independent from this country.
What is Great Britain?
This is an agreement in which people give up some freedoms in exchange for protection.
What is the social contract?
Explain why governments must balance liberty and security.
Something Like: Governments need enough power to protect people but not so much power that they take away individual freedoms.
Religious leaders or religious laws guide the government and political decisions are based on religious beliefs.
What is a theocracy?
This philosopher believed people have Natural Rights.
Who is John Locke?
Which Enlightenment philosopher most influenced the ideas found in the Declaration of Independence?
Who is John Locke?