Founders Philosophies
Historical Influences
Random
Colonial Tensions
Constitutional Formatting
100
Why did the founders fear democracy?
What is mob rule and protecting against tyranny of the majority.
100
Define classical republicanism.
What is the idea of promoting the common good.
100
Name the event in which Parliament gained power over the king without bloodshed.
What is the Glorious Revolution of 1688
100
This King was accused of abusing the colonists and depriving them of their natural rights:
What is King George III
100
Name the three branches of government
What is legislative, executive, and judicial.
200
What are constitutional mechanisms?
What are elections, parchment barriers, and ambition.
200
Name some influences of ancient Greek and Roman cities on the government the founders wanted to create.
What is Rome, Sparta
200
The Charter of Liberties did this:
What is told King Henry I that he must obey certain rules regarding the treatment of nobles and church officials. It was the first attempt to limit the absolute power of an English Monarch. (1100)
200
The Intolerable Acts were a result of this colonial retaliation:
What is the Boston Tea Party
200
name three rights listed in most state constitutions:
What is the right to vote, free and frequent elections, freedom of speech and press, the right to petition the government, no taxation without representation, the right to a trial by jury of your peers, protection from illegal search and seizures, and protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
300
What form of constitution does England have?
What is unwritten constitution.
300
Aristotle and Montesquieu believed that societies function better when they are:
What is small and uniform.
300
The judge of the colony
What is a magistrate
300
Colonial groups of resistance are known as this:
What is committees of correspondence.
300
The English Constitution is formed from these three documents:
What is Magna Carta (1215), Petition of Rights (1628), and the English Bill of Rights (1689)
400
He believed that government had three primary functions.
What is Aristotle
400
name two natural rights philosophers and the differences between the two.
What is John Locke (state of nature is ok because we will naturally form a social contract), and Hobbes (any government is preferable to a state of nature/ state of war)
400
These Acts angered the colonists and encouraged the benefits of independence.
What is the Proclamation Act of 1763, the Stamp Act of 1765, and the (first) Quartering Act of 1765.
400
A law that contains universally obligatory standards of justice and would prevail over any man-made law is known as:
What is a law of nature
400
English Parliament is made up of these two bicameral legislatures
What is the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
500
Name the forms of both good and bad governments and what they mean.
What is monarchy (the rule of one), aristocracy (rule of the few), polity/ Plutocracy (the rule of many; not a democracy), tyranny (corrupt monarchy), oligarchy ( corrupt aristocracy), democracy (corrupt polity; direct rule of the people), and anarchy (no government)
500
Cincinnatus and Cato the Elder are examples of this classical republicanism outlook:
What is the responsibilities of a citizen to place the good of the whole over the wants and needs of individuals.
500
This allowed Massachusetts to move west after 1636
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
500
This event occurred on April 9, 1775
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
500
name the first state to adopt a declaration of rights
What is Virginia (June 12, 1776)
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