Topic 1.1
Life, Liberty and Property
What are Natural Rights?
There are 4 of these on the AP exam where you are expected to write out your answers.
What are free response questions?
The king of Great Britain thought his power came from this entity.
Who is God?
The document that first governed the 13 independent colonies after the Revolutionary War.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The name for the first 10 Amendments of the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
Humankind surrenders most extreme rights to self-preservation so they can enter into a commonwealth to protect natural rights.
What is a social contract?
The type of representative democracy where policymaking institutions are influenced by the wealthy and powerful.
What is elitism?
A system of government that delegates power to the states and the national government.
What is the federal system?
The structure of the Legislature under the Articles of Confederation.
What is unicameral?
What is 55 delegates?
A break up letter from the 13 colonies to Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A type of representative democracy characterized by
- people voting
- people doing jury duty
- people attending local meetings
- people meeting with policy makers
What is participatory democracy?
A system of government that gives power to the state government has limited powers to the federal government.
What is a confederal government?
This was required in order to amend the Articles of Confederation.
What is unanimous vote? Or What is each state had to agree?
The compromise that decided how slave population will be counted towards the number of representatives for a given state.
What is the 3/5 compromise?
What is Republicanism?
Who are the anti-federalists?
A document that was written by a group of people in support of the Constitution that argued for a large republic and warned against factions.
What is Federalist 10?
Farmers physically prevented judges from foreclosing on farms.
What is the Shay's Rebellion?
The compromise that led to the bicameral structure of Congress: House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is the Great Compromise? or What is the Connecticut Compromise?
Altered version of Natural Rights that are listed in the Declaration of Independence
What are life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?
Author of Federalist 10
Who is James Madison?
A document that was written by a group of people not in support of the Constitution which argued that a large Republic would consolidate too much power in the central government and result in tyranny.
What is Brutus 1?
The year that the Articles of Confederation were adopted by all 13 states.
What is 1781?
The meeting that was abandoned and turned into the meeting of all states known as the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Annapolis Meeting?