Origins of Gov.
This Greek City-State was responsible for the first form of government which involved the direct participation of the people.
What is Athens (Birthplace of Democracy)
Believed that all were born with three natural rights...Life Liberty and Property.
Who is John Locke
The Articles contained this number of sections/articles which funnily enough reflected the number of states at the time of their creation.
What is Thirteen
What is Philidelphia
This individual is well known for his role in signing the Declaration of Independce boldly.
Who is John Hancock
This Latin Empire create a form of government in which the people elected representatives to voice their concerns.
What is Rome (The Roman Republic)
Argued that there could be no liberty in which one governing body held botht he power to write and enforce the laws of the land.
Who is Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
The Articles were centered around this form of government which gave Sovereignty to the States
What is a Confederation (Confederacy)
This was the first plan offered for the new Constitution suggesting a two house legislature with representation chosen based on a state's population.
What is the Virginia Plan
ARTICLE II. Each State retains its Sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled. This is the second clause of this important document.
What are the Articles of Confederation
King John of England was forced by nobles to sign this document in 1215 limiting his power.
Whatg is the Magna Carta
This French philoshopher argued that freedom of speech was enssential to creating a social contract within the community.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Each state was allowed to send anywhere from 2-7 delegates to the national legislature, but received this number of votes.
What is One per State
The New Jersey Plan reflected the Articles by arguing that each state should have this form of representation in government.
What is Equal or One Vote Representation
The Consitituion contains this many Articles which establish the rules of government and the sovereignty of the States and Poeple
What are Seven Articles
The Parliament of England force King William and Queen Mary to sign this document in 1688 giving a majority of Soveriegnty to the English Legislature.
What are the English Bill of Rights
This philospher lived through the English Civil War and developed the idea that government existed to protect people from themselves.
Who is Thomas Hobbes
A farmer in Massachusetts led his fellows in this uprising against the state which alomost destroyed the US in 1786-87 due to the weakness of the Articles of Confederation
What is Shay's Rebellion
Also known as the Great Compromise this coming together of the New Jersey and Virginia plans laid the foundation of the modern US government
What is the Connecticut Compromise
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. This represent the _____ amendment of the Bill of Rights
What is the Seventh (VII) Amendment
The Puritans who arrived from England in 1620 help create this first written social contract in the colonies
What is the Mayflower Compact
Drafted the Commentaries on English Law in four volumes which led to the establishment of English Common Law...today the root of the American Legal System.
Who is Sir William Blackstone
The lesgislature under the articles consisted of a single house or this latin phrase meaning the same.
What is Unicameral
This portion of the Constitution is responsible for the divison of the delegates into the Federalist and Anti-Federalist parties.
What is the Bill of Rights
This is the Preamble of the United States Constitution word for word.
What is...We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America