What are the natural rights that every person has, according to John Locke? (Hint: 4)
Life, Liberty, Health, and Posessions
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The concept that the majority decides the outcome of most votes but there are some limits when the majority infringes on the rights of the minority
Majority rules with minority rights
100
Name of the small group of leaders in an oligarchy
Junta
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The institution through which society makes and enforces its public policies or rules to create an ordered society
government
100
The sharing of powers and responsibilities that go into living with other people in a nation
citizenship
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When only one leader rules the nation through the military it is called?
Dictatorship
200
Why is it necessary for democracies to allow for evolution of its government?
the concept of democracy is constantly changing and governments and nations need to allow each generation to change its meaning
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What did Alexis de Tocqueville call the misuse of power by the majority?
Tyranny
200
Absence of government
anarchy
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Theory that all citizens must surrender unlimited freedom to a legitimate government in order to receive freedom from violence and lawlessness
Social Contract Theory
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The form of government where a handful of leaders, usually military, lead a nation is called?
Oligarchy
300
What do we mean by the term constitutional monarchy, like in Great Britain?
the Queen still exists but pretty much in name only as she has no power to speak of
300
Who said, "if men were angels, no government would be necessary"?
James Madison
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Theory that all citizens must surrender unlimited freedom to a legitimate government in order to receive freedom from violence and lawlessness
Rule of law
300
Rule of a nation by the extensive use of rules and laws to control the people
Bureaucratic totalitarianism
400
What is the difference between a direct and indirect democracy?
indirect democracy is where the people elect leaders to represent their interests where a direct democracy is where the people decide the issues themselves
400
What is the most important common bond that brought Israel about as a nation?
Religious freedom
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Who said, “if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be”?
Thomas Jeffersn
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The right and power to rule oneself
sovereignty
400
Two levels of government with the states, or lower level, have more sovereignty
Confederation
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What do we call it when a government has absolute authority to rule without any checks on its power?
authoritarianism
500
The four characteristics that all nations have.
Population
Geographic territory
Sovereignty
Government
500
Our government is best described as a sharing of power between the states and federal government. What form of geographical distribution is this?
Federation
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Government taken by military force
Coup d'etat
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A government whose leader has received his/her power to rule through divine right