Foundations of Government
The ultimate source of governmental authority is with the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Resolved representation of states in Congress at the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Great Compromise?
Q: Known as the “Father of the Constitution” and author of the Bill of Rights.
Who is James Madison?
This early U.S. document created the first government after independence.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
A government acting contrary to the people’s general will should be dissolved, according to this philosopher.
Who is Rousseau?
The idea of representative government first developed in this ancient civilization.
What is Rome?
This compromise determined how enslaved people counted for taxation and representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Key Enlightenment idea that government is an agreement between the people and the state.
What is the Social Contract?
The state’s number of votes in this body depends on total representatives in Congress.
What is the Electoral College?
The Articles of Confederation reflected Americans’ fear of this.
What is a strong central government?
Number of colonies needed to ratify the Constitution.
What is Nine?
Political philosopher who favored separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
The key idea from Montesquieu’s Spirit of Laws that shaped the U.S. Constitution.
What is Separation of Powers?
This war, along with taxes and Enlightenment ideas, was a cause of the U.S. War for Independence.
What is the French and Indian War?
Both Locke and Jefferson described these as “life, liberty, and property/pursuit of happiness.”
What are Natural Rights?
This group wanted stronger state governments and demanded a Bill of Rights.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
Wrote about the social contract with the idea of “general will.”
Who is Rousseau?
This English document established rule of law and limited the king’s power.
What is the Magna Carta?
This addition to the Constitution secured Anti-Federalist support.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The principle that government must follow the law first appeared in this English document.
What is the Magna Carta?
Q: Essays that argued in favor of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This English thinker influenced Jefferson with “life, liberty, and property.”
Who is John Locke?
This American document listed grievances and declared independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This ancient civilization inspired principles of our legal system.
What is Greece?