Summative Review

Government Branches

100

Makes Laws

Legislative

200

Carries out laws

Executive

300

Decides Constitutionality of Laws

Judicial

400

A Legislative Body Having Two Branches or Chambers

Bicameralism

500

To Declare a Legislative or Executive act in Violation of the Constitution  

Judicial Review

Government

100

 body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.

Constitution

200

an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as a means of explaining the origin of government and the obligations of subjects.

Social Contract

300

Locke wrote that all individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain "inalienable" ------- -------. That is, rights that are God-given and can never be taken or even given away. Among these fundamental natural rights, Locke said, are "life, liberty, and property."

Natural rights

400

a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

Republic

500

an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.

Separation of powers

Government Types

100

In ______ _____, the people decide on policies without any intermediary or representative, whereas in a representative democracy people vote for representatives who then enact policy initiatives.

Direct Democracy

200

The United States is a _______ __________. This means that our government is elected by citizens. Here, citizens vote for their government officials. These officials represent the citizens' ideas and concerns in government. Voting is one way to participate in our democracy.

Representative Democracy

300

______  battled for adoption of the Constitution

They favored weaker state governments, a strong centralized government, the indirect election of government officials, longer term limits for officeholders, and representative, rather than direct, democracy.

Federalist View

400

The ______ _______ opposed the ratification of the 1787 U.S. Constitution because they feared that the new national government would be too powerful and thus threaten individual liberties, given the absence of a bill of rights.

Anti-federalist View

500

Free Space

You did it!!

Bill Of Rights

100

No search without probable cause or warrant

4 

200

Right to bear arms

2

300

No double jeopardy  or testify against self

5

400

Speedy and Fair Trial

6

500

In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

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Bonus

100

______ ___ ______, in political theory, the real or hypothetical condition of human beings before or without political association.

State of Nature

200

a principle of divine or moral law that is considered to be superior to constitutions and enacted legislation.

Higher Law

300

Why was the legislative branch considered the most important

Its Closest to the people and makes all laws

400

Why is the supreme court shielded from political influence

Because they don't want them to unfairly decide constitutionality 

500

_______ ______ is morality or a standard of righteous behavior in relationship to a citizen's involvement in society. An individual may exhibit civic virtue by voting, volunteering, organizing a book group, or attending a PTA meeting. Historic Roots. The Greek word for virtue is arete, which means excellence.

Civic Virtue