Vocabulary
Rights which include the rights to life, liberty, and property.
What are natural rights?
The right that gives you the right to be free.
What is liberty?
Where did the Founders get some of their ideas about government?
By studying the history of ancient Greece and Rome.
Do we have a constitutional government?
Yes, the constitution sets limits on what the people who run the government are allowed to do.
The war between the colonies and Great Britain.
What is the American Revolution?
A situation where there is no government, no rules, and no laws.
What is state of nature?
The philosopher who suggested that you imagine living in a state of nature.
Who is John Locke?
The people themselves decide what laws they need.
What is direct democracy?
A government that there are no limits on the power of the people who run the government.
What is a dictatorial government?
What problems did the colonists have with the British government?
The British government passed new laws taxing the colonists and controlling their trade.
The people themselves decide what laws they need.
What is a direct democracy?
An agreement amount the people to set up a government.
What is a social contract?
All the people in a country over a certain age, such as 18, have the right to elect representatives to make laws for them.
What is a representative democracy?
Can you have a constitution and still have a dictatorial government?
Yes, the Constitution might give a person unlimited power.
A rule or belief about how to behave.
What is principle?
A set of rules and laws that explain how a government is organized and how it should be run.
What is a constitution?
The people consent to obey the laws and the government they create.
What is consent of the governed?
What 4 ideas did the Founders use from the Roman Republic?
1. Representatives are selected to serve the common good.
2. Having representatives make the laws is more efficient.
3. The people have a say in their government.
4. The representatives have to listen to the people.
Tell me whether the following sentence is a rule or a law: Don't speak with your mouth full.
What is a rule.
What are the 3 parts to the Declaration of Independence?
1. Basic ideas about people and government.
2. Reasons why the Founders thought they had the right to be free from British rule.
3. Complaints against the British king.
A document Thomas Jefferson wrote which describes the basic principles of the new nation.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The main purpose of government.
What is to protect a person's rights to life, liberty, and property?
When you work to help others and promote the common good, you are showing....
What is civic virtue?
Tell me whether the following sentence is a rule or a law: The President must be elected every four years.
People who agreed the colonies should stay loyal or faithful to the king.
What are loyalists?