Vocabulary I
States that no one is above the law and even the president has to follow the rules
What is Rule of Law
Another word for complaints or problems
What is Grievances
This person believed that there was a social contract between the government and also that people have natural rights.
John Locke
The year the Declaration of Independence was signed
What is 1776
The form of government that has a king or queen
What is a Monarchy
British law passed placing a tax on all paper sold in the American Colonies
What is the Stamp act
The principle that no person can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without fair legal procedures and safeguards
What Due Process
Believed that there must be a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances.
Montesquieu
The colonists response to the Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
A country that is ruled by one leader who controls the government, military, and media. Citizens cannot freely criticize the government or vote for other political parties.
Dictatorship
Process for a non citizen to become a citizen in the United States
What is the Naturalization Process
The status of Marcus citizenship as Marcus was born to American parents in Columbia.
What is law of blood citizenship
The Founding Fathers used the concept of "self-governing" when they wrote the Constitution. This idea came from this document.
The Mayflower Compact
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are...
What is Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
The form of government in the United States
What is a Constitutional Republic
The idea that government powers should be split into multiple branches
What is Separation of power
All males aged 18+ must register for military service
What is selective service
An influential document limited the power of the king and should provide the people with a trial by jury.
Magna Carta
This bloody event saw British soldier open fire on a crowd, killing 5 American colonists.
After the Soviet collapse a small group of business elites gained control of major economic sectors. Power remains concentrated among wealthy business political elites with close ties to the Kremlin.
What is an Oligarchy
British law requiring American colonies to house and supply British soldiers, as the colonies were expected to pay for their own defense
Quartering Act
The obligation of all citizens to be an impartial member of a group in court.
What is Jury Duty
These three ancient influences gave the founding fathers the idea of democracy (citizens voting), republicanism (representative government) and equality of all people (10 commandments)
What is Ancient Greece, Rome and Judeo-Christian
John Locke's idea that influenced Thomas Jefferson's to write, "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
What is social contract
The Iranian Constitution establishes Shia Islam as the state religion. It has a “Supreme Leader” (a religious scholar, a faqih) who holds ultimate authority over many matters—judiciary, military, media—and all laws must align with Islamic principles
What is an theocracy