Party in the USA
Life, liberty, property
What are natural rights?
In a republic, power is derived from this.
What is the people?
Legal framework for government that can be written or unwritten.
What is a constitution?
This branch of government has the power to make laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This branch of government has the power to carry out and enforce laws.
What is the executive branch?
These people had lived in America for thousands of years before European arrival.
Who are the Native Americans?
To protect those rights the individual cannot effectively protect in a state of nature.
What is purpose of government?
A set of laws that establish and limit the government.
In this type of government, the people directly control the government.
What is a direct democracy?
This branch of government has the power to manage conflicts about the meaning, application, and enforcement of laws.
What is the judicial branch?
Most of the British settlers lived here.
What is the Atlantic Coast?
To agree to form government and give government the power to make and enforce laws.
A government of limited power.
What is a constitutional government?
In this type of government, the people´s representatives make the laws and run the government.
What is a republican government?
The idea citizens should put aside their own self-interests in favor of the common good.
What is civic virtue?
These people were denied the right to vote in America.
The origin of republicanism/republican government
What is the Roman Republic?
A government of unlimited power.
What is an autocratic or dictatorial government?
What is common good?
Form of government where power is held by a single ruler.
What is a monarchy?
By the 1770s, these countries had settled in North America.
Who are the Spanish, French, Dutch, and British?
John Locke reasoned that most people were this.
What is reasonable and good?
Power of government is not given to any one branch.
What is separation of powers?
The idea that the powers of government are balanced so no one branch can dominate.
What is checks & balances?
A part of life that is not the business of government.
What is private domain?