3 Branches
The Highest Court in the United States
What is U.S. Supreme Court
What is suffrage?
the right to vote
How did judeo-christian tradition influence the founding fathers?
Individual worth
personal responsibility
What was the Enlightenment
A period of human reason and scientific advancements.
What is a Grievance
A complaint
How does the Executive Branch check legislative bills
Vetos
what did the 13 amendment do?
free the slaves
what is the importance of the magna carta?
it established the right to justice, due process of law, limited government, and turned england into a limited monarchy
What were the beliefs of John Locke
Natural Laws
Natural Rights
Life, Liberty, and Property
What was the main grievance that the Colonists argues (i.e. taxes)
What is the Role of the Legislative Branch
To make laws
What supreme court case fought for civil right?
brown v. board of education
what is the importance of the mayflower compact?
it gave birth to self government
What were Montesquieu's Beliefs
Separation of Powers
How did the Colonists react to Stamp Act
No taxation without Representation
What is the role of the president in the military
Commander-in-cheif
what is poll tax?
tax placed on voting
What right did the english bill of rights promise?
natural rights, fair trial, no taxation without representation.
What was covered in Common Sense
The colonies should adopt a representative government and separate from Britain.
What was the Boston Tea Party
Colonists threw tea off boston harbor as protest to the Tea Act
Name a current supreme court justice
John Roberts, and Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Clarence Thomas
what amendment prohibited poll tax?
24 amendment
Rule of Law
Natural Rights
Limited Government
Due Process of Law
Equality of Mankind
What is a Social Contract
An agreement between the government and the people they govern.
What followed the Intolerable Acts
Closing of the Boston Harbor
Suspension of Trial by Jury
Individual Rights threatened