Politics
Politics is about this fundamental question.
Who rules?
Rule of the one.
What is monarchy or dictatorship?
This man principally authored the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These are the three branches of government.
What are the executive, judiciary, and legislative?
We hold these truths to be self-evident: ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______.
This philosopher's Politics provided the first scientific framework for studying politics.
Who is Aristotle?
Rule of the few.
What is oligarchy or aristocracy?
This war forced Parliament to tighten its hold on the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
According to this scheme of avoiding tyranny, the president can veto the legislative and the legislative can impeach the president.
What are checks and balances?
Like Locke, the Declaration identifies these three "unalienable rights."
What are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?"
This three part distinction helps classify types of regime.
What is the one, the many, and the few.
Rule of the many.
What is democracy or republic?
Before Lexington and Concord, rebellion in the colonies emerged as a reaction to these types of laws.
What are taxes?
Montesquieu pronounced the concentration of powers in one hand the very essence of tyranny. By breaking up the functions of government, the founders achieved this.
What is the separation of powers/function?
The signers of the Declaration put much on the line when they pledged these things.
What are their "lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?"
Individual persons are not political, but these are.
What are groups or communities?
Aristotle would have called our government, combining many types of rule, this type of regime.
What is a mixed regime?
What are July 2 and 4, 1776?
Our regime is often called an indirect democracy or this?
What is republic/democratic republic?
The Declaration's natural rights political science was drawn from his study of these.
What are the laws of nature?
The presidency was invented by this regime.
What is the United States of America?
Besides the number of men involved, Aristotle makes this distinction between governments.
What are good and bad?
The first of these failed to build unity; but the second made a Revolution.
What are Continental Congresses?
According to the Declaration, our government is constituted to "secure" these.
What are rights or natural rights?
The Declaration said of an oppressed people that "it is their ______, it is their ______, to throw off such government."
What is "right" and "duty?"