Types of Government
A government with little to no control or authority.
What is anarchy?
A strong central government with most of the power.
What is a unitary system?
He argued for natural rights: life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This weak first U.S. government gave little power to Congress.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Congress could not collect these under the Articles.
What are taxes?
In this system, citizens elect representatives to make laws.
What is a republic/representative democracy?
A government where power is shared between central and state governments.
What is federalism?
He believed in a social contract between people and their government.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
Pilgrims agreed to self-government under English rule in this compact.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
All 13 states had to agree for this to happen.
What is an amendment?
A government ruled by a small elite group.
What is an oligarchy?
The U.S. system where laws are made by two chambers.
What is bicameral?
He believed people need government power to maintain order.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This document listed America’s complaints against Britain and claimed independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This rebellion by farmers exposed the Articles’ weakness.
What is Shays’s Rebellion?
This oppressive system gives a leader absolute power.
What is tyranny?
An economic system based on private ownership and profit.
What is capitalism?
He developed the idea of separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
This English law gave citizens rights and limited the king.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
ngry soldiers forced Congress to flee Philadelphia during this event.
What is the Philadelphia Mutiny?
*Daily Double*
A totalitarian government that uses violence and hyper-nationalism, discriminating against minorities.
What is fascism?
A partnership of small, highly independent states with limited central authority.
What is a confederation?
He believed people had the duty to overthrow abusive governments.
Who is Rousseau?
English nobles forced King John to sign this document, limiting royal power.
What is the Magna Carta?
The Articles created this type of legislature.
What is unicameral?