Political Science
This idea explains the nature of the relationship between the individual and the government
What is the Social Contract?
These rights protect citizens' ability to choose their own leadership.
What are Democratic Rights?
This freedom allows people to speak their opinions freely, with some limitations.
What is freedom of expression?
This is the name for a single person who controls a government.
What is a dictator?
This is how leadership is chosen in democratic societies.
What are elections?
These three expectations or responsibilities define the relationship between citizens and government
What is obeying the law, paying tax, and voting?
These rights protect citizens from being randomly stopped and searched by the police.
What are Legal Rights?
This freedom allows citizens to protest in a reasonable way against laws they disagree with.
What is the freedom of peaceful assembly?
This type of government usually has a small group of very powerful people making decisions about a country that favour them first.
What is an oligarchy?
This is the main role of government officials chosen by citizens in democracy.
What is law-making?
This concept or term refers to what life was like before we had organized government.
What is the state of nature?
These rights protect a citizens' ability to receive an education in either English or French?
What are Minority Language Rights?
This freedom protects citizens' right to believe anything they want to believe.
What is freedom of thought and belief?
This type of government is run by a religious leader or leaders who claim to have been given power by God.
What is a theocracy?
This is the main criticism or disadvantage of democratic governments.
What is the problem of slow decision making and problem solving?
This the main reason why absolute or total personal freedom for citizens is bad for people and society.
What is the problem of total freedom making everyone less free because they could choose to take away another person's freedom?
These rights protect a citizen's ability to find work in another province or territory.
What are Mobility Rights?
This freedom protects the media's ability to publish or communicate information without being censored by the government.
What is freedom of the press?
This is the main reason most citizens tend to be unhappy or have negative emotions in autocratic government?
What is the problem of not having many rights and freedoms?
This is the main reason why most citizens are happier in democracies than they are in autocracies.
What are rights and freedoms?
This concept or term refers to all citizens regardless of their status being held equally accountable to the same set of laws.
What is the Rule of Law?
This section of the Charter protects citizens' right to not be discriminated against.
What are Equality Rights?
The famous Canadian example involving History teacher James Keegstra promoting a view that the Holocaust did not happen is an example of how this law limits the freedom of speech.
What is Hate Speech law?
This type of government is a dictatorship where the leadership have taken over all the social institutions to make sure it's harder for them to lose power.
What is totalitarianism?
This type of democratic government involves Indigenous citizens appointing a group of local elders to make decision about their community.
What is tribal government?