Vocab
A government where one person or a small group has complete authority.
What is a dicatorship?
Originaly only who could vote?
White property-owning men.
The maker of the Magna Carta.
Who is King John of England?
A government where citizens rule themselves through elected representatives.
What is a republic?
Other than white men, who else could enter into contracts and own property?
Unmarried women.
What american leader decided to look to the past to find answers for building the constitution?
John Adams
The system is designed to keep any person or group from gaining too much power.
What is the separation of powers/checks and balances system?
What document set up the court system?
The Constitution.
The Roman leader who invented the dictatorship.
Who is Caesar Augustus?
This document made monarchs obey the law and made monarchs unable to raise taxes without consulting other leaders.
What is the Magna Carta?
What is the military title of the President?
Commander-in-Chief of the military.
This man wrote Two Treatises of Government.
Who is John Locke?
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The first document of self government.
Who made the Checks and Balances system?