Democracy
When people's participation is proportional to their representation, like with a survey.
What is "direct democracy?"
A system where elections exist but rights and freedoms are limited.
What is illiberal democracy?
This country is considered to be where democracy was created.
What is Greece?
This country denied that the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989 ever happened?
What is China?
This 1920 activist movement lead to the inclusion of women as participants as voting citizens.
What is Women's Suffrage?
A system allows citizens to vote directly on a specific issue or law?
What is a referendum?
How illiberal democracies are still democratic.
What is elections?
This state is considered to be the "craddle of democracy"?
What is Athens?
This country used the PATRIOT Act to expand government powers after 9/11?
What is the USA?
Someone chooses not to follow the law because they feel it is unjust.
What is civil disobedience?
A description of whether the ruling government secured more or less of the 50% of the seats in the House of Commons.
What are majority and minority governments?
Limiting fair elections by restricting opposition or media.
What is suppressing political opposition?
This 1215 document limited the power of the king and influenced democracy?
What is the Magna Carta?
This country used the War Measures Act during the October Crisis to detain individuals without trial?
What is Canada?
Type of protest involves peaceful actions without violence.
What is non-violent protest / peaceful resistance?
Electoral system designed to simplify democratic participation with one voice speaking for many.
What is a representative democracy?
What is freedom of the press?
The intellectual movement promoted ideas like individual rights and democracy?
What is the Enlightenment?
This ethnicity of people had their rights taken away in Canada during the second world war.
Who are the Japanese?
A protest involves workers refusing to work to demand change?
What is a strike?
Electoral system designed to have representation of the majority group.
First past the post.
In 2014, Viktor Orban announced he wanted to make this country an "illiberal state."
What is Hungary?
What idea emerged from Enlightenment thinkers that governments should be based on the consent of the governed?
What is popular sovereignty?
Movement in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s used civil disobedience to challenge racial segregation and inequality?
What is a the Civil Rights Movement?
A protest that seeks to completely overthrow a government?
What is a revolution?