The Declaration of Independence
What did the colonists call their complaints about the British Crown?
What is Grievances?
Under a social contract, according to Locke and Hobbes, the government shall use its power to protect and ensure ________.
What is public good?
Even though the colonies had declared Independence from the British Crown by 1776, the colonies had not ___ a constitution.
What is ratify?
A process in which some entity or body is elected to or designated for some official office or position by some other body/bodies.
What is Apportionment?
What is it called when someone has authority or power over someone or something else.
What is Sovereignty?
According to the British-American colonies' Decleration of Independece, King George III's unjust and infriging behavior deems him a _____ of the accending states.
What is Tyranny?
According to Locke, there exist certain rights that are inherent to mankind, which should never be infringed upon. What are these rights called in the Constitution?
What is unalienable?
During the Second Continental Congress, the congressional delegates emapthised the need to be _______ or cautious about forming a more empowered, centralized goverment.
What is prudence?
A principle associated with John Locke, which asserts that a government can and should be legally limited in its powers by some fundamental legislation or legislation to better fulfill its duties toits people.
What is Constitutionalism?
The colonies made ______ to Britain, demanding them to stop taxing and governing them.
What is Requisitions?
The Decleration of Independence asserted that the Brotish Crown had imposed ____ damages onto the colonies.
What is mob?
If the government is ever to infringe or fail to uphold its duty under the social contract, the people, according to John Locke, must ________.
What is usurpations?
The Confederation of the United States had estabslished a "firm _____ of friendship".
What is league?
A political ideology that promotes a system of government in which sovereignty resides in its people and their elected representatives - a form of democracy.
What is Republicanism?
A person who persuades others to join their cause by appealing to their desires is called a _________.
What is Demagogue?
The people of the British-American colonies were compelled to declare independence from the British Crown in order to _____ themselves from the King's injustices.
What is absolved?
The goverment, according to Locke and Hobbes, draws its power from the _____ of the people.
What is consent?
Between 1786 and 1787, Daniel Shay - a former militia member for the Continental Army- led a series of protests with fellow unpaid servicemen to relieve them of their debts owed on property and transactions while serving in the military. This group eventually became aggressive after repeated denial, in what is known as Shay's rebellion. This disorder collection of people is an example of a ___.
What is a Mob?
An organization that consists of a number of parties or entities formally united in an alliance or league.
What is a Confederation?
The reason behind a choice.
What is impelled?
The colonist asserted that the British Crown - after declaring that the colonies were responsible for self-governing themselves - had no _____ to rule of the colonies.
What is jurisdiction?
According to Thomas Hobbes, man is inherently _____, and because this conflicting desire, will devolve into disorder and chaos.
What is Self-interest?
The Federalist and Antifederalist are both early political ____ of the United States.
What is a Faction?
A form of government in which a single entity - either a person or a small group -exercises absolute, unchecked power over its sovereign state in a usually arbitrary, oppressive manner.
What is Despotism?
A key benevolent characteristic for a person.
What is Virtue?