Unit 1 Vocab
Grievances
What is a real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment?
Bicameral
What is a legislative body composed of two chambers?
This theory was objected to in the Declaration of Independence.
The Divine Right of Kings
A system of government in which public policies are made by officials selected by the voters and held accountable in periodic elections.
What is a representative government?
The three branches of government.
what are the Judicial, Executive, and Legislative branches?
English Bill of Rights
What is a document that designed to prevent abuse of power by English monarchs; forms the basis for much in American government and politics today?
The power to interpret laws, to determine their meaning, and to settle disputes that arise within the society.
What is Judicial Power?
This was the first time the colonies joined together in an attempt to convince parliament to repeal something
What was the Stamp Act Congress?
Social Contract
What is an agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits?
Magna Carta
What established that the power of the monarchy was not absolute and guaranteed trial by jury and due process of law to the nobility?
All of the many goals that a government pursues in all of the many areas of human affairs in which it is involved.
What is public policy?
Anti-Federalists believed this needed to be added to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights because they were concerned the Constitution gave the Government too much power?
Sovereign
What is having supreme and absolute power within its own territory, and having the ability to decide its own foreign and domestic policies?
Alexander Hamilton
Who was a member of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention and wrote many of the Federalist Papers?
He thought that an absolute monarchy was the best government for England. He distrusted democracy but thought that authorized representatives as the voice of the people would prevent a monarch from being unfair or cruel.
Who is Thomas Hobbes
The Article of Confederation created this structure of government.
What was one house of congress, where each state had one vote?
Divine Right of Kings
What is the belief that the monarchs had been hand-picked to have authority by God.
Anti-Federalists
Who were the peoplele who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1787–1788?
This is used as a concrete and public record of the principles of government, guaranteeing the rights and liberties of the people.
What is a constitution?
The weaknesses in the Article of confederation.
What were
Congress could not enforce the states to follow the Articles of Confederation.
States made illegal deals with foreign entities
Economic Chaos