Types of Governments
A type of government where people elect leaders to make laws for them.
What is a republic?
Or
What is a representative democracy?
The idea that people give the government its power and that the government has a responsibility to protect the people's rights.
This document listed rights that all people should have and separated the 13 colonies from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Right of people to speak, publish, have and express ideas
Freedom of Speech
The ability to do as one pleases.
Liberty
A type of government ruled by leaders of the church?
What is a theocracy?
Things that all people should be allowed to do.
The compromise that created Congress with two chambers: one with two votes per state and one with votes given by state population.
What is the Great Compromise?
Land that is controlled by a single government
Country
An unjust or cruel use of power
Oppression
What is a direct democracy?
A theoretical world without government where there would be no rules, no one in charge, and no one protecting their natural rights.
What is the state of nature?
The meeting of delegates to amend the Articles of Confederation which ended up writing the Constitution.
A king or queen that rules without limitations on their power
Absolute Monarch
Ability to control people and events
Power
A form of government with a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
The concept that governments that take away rights should be overthrown and replaced.
What is consent of the governed?
A negotiation that led to 3/5ths of the enslaved population being counted towards a state's population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The supreme law of the land, it sets up the structure of the U.S. government
Constitution
The rule of many, a system where people control the government
Democracy
A type of government where a leader has complete control over people's lives.
What is a dictatorship?
Influential thinker that believed that people had the right to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
The name of the original government in the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The law-making (legislative) part of the federal government.
What is Congress?
Right of people to elect politicians to represent them
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