Foundations of Government
The definition of government.
What is a group or system that makes laws, keeps order, and helps a country run smoothly.
This person believed people are naturally selfish and need a strong ruler.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This system of government gives all power to the central government.
What is a Unitary system?
The meaning of 'No taxation without representation'.
What is colonists were taxed without having a voice in British Parliament?
Define the 'Great Compromise'.
What is a bicameral legislature: House based on population, Senate with equal representation?
The four features of a state.
What is Population, Territory, Government, Sovereignty?
The three natural rights John Locke believed all people have.
What are Life, Liberty, and Property?
The system that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
What is a Confederal system?
The writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The Three-Fifths Compromise.
What is every 5 enslaved people counted as 3 for representation and taxation?
Definition of Sovereignty.
What is the power to make decisions without approval from others?
This philosopher promoted separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
Name the system where power is shared between national and state governments.
What a federal system?
Enlightenment thinker that most influenced the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
The Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and what they disagreed about.
What is federalists supported a strong national government and Anti-Federalists wanted stronger state powers and a Bill of Rights?
What we call a situation with no government, no rules, and no leader?
What is anarchy?
This person argued for popular sovereignty and a direct democracy.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
The difference between an absolute monarchy and a constitutional monarchy.
Absolute: King/queen has unlimited power. Constitutional: Power shared with elected government.
Event that showed the Articles of Confederation were too weak.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
Name two enumerated (National) powers and two reserved (state) powers.
Enumerated (National): declaring war, coining money.
Reserved (State): running schools, holding elections.
List the five main functions of government.
What are Providing Leadership, Maintaining Order, Providing National Security, Providing Public Services, Providing Economic Security & Assistance?
Define 'consent of the governed'.
What is government power comes from the people’s approval?
Compare direct democracy and representative democracy.
Direct: People vote on all laws themselves. Representative: People elect leaders to make decisions.
Two major weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
- No power to tax
-No national military
-No power to enforce laws
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The Supremacy Clause, and it's importance.
What is the Constitution is the highest law; federal law overrides conflicting state law.