Key Terms
Means to abuse power.
What is tyranny?
Created by passengers aboard the Mayflower as an agreement to make and obey laws for the welfare of the group.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This document is also called the “Great Charter”!
What is the Magna Carta?
This branch interprets the law.
What is the Judicial branch?
This compromise counted each slave as three fifths of a person when a state’s population was calculated.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
A written agreement to make and obey laws for the welfare of the group.
What is a compact?
Powers the Constitution doe not give to the federal government and does not deny to the states.
What are Reserved powers?
Nobles forced this King to sign the Manga Carta.
Who is Kind John?
This branch enforces the law?
What is the Executive branch?
A two-house legislature.
What is bicameral?
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
Dividing government power among legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is separation of powers?
“Among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What are unalienable Rights?
Over the centuries, this legislature gradually became more powerful than the monarch.
Who is Parliament?
What is Parliament?
The United States Congress, with the sole authority to enact legislation and declare war.
What is the Legislative branch?
The following lists is part of a group of objective set for an authoritative organization:
1. To Establish Justice
2. To insure Domestic Tranquillity
3. To Provide for the Common Defense
What are the goal of the Government?
What are some of the six goals in the Preamble of the Constitution?
A form of government in which laws are made directly by the citizens.
What is direct democracy?
Change made to the Constitution.
What are amendments?
The Magna Carta had much influence on this document created by the American colonists and adopted in Philadelphia in the year 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The ability of one branch of government to limit the power of the other two branches.
What are checks and balances?
The division of power between the national government and state.
What is federalism?
To approve legally.
What is ratification?
Did not immediately free the slaves but was written in the Declaration of Independence.
What is “all men are created equal”?
Parliament pass this to further limit the power of the monarchs.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Has final say in as cases involving the Constitution.
What is the Supreme Court?
Powers shared by the federal government and the states.
What are concurrent powers?