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Government
Concepts of Democracy
America Political Beginnings
The Declaration of Independence/ Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
100
The Institution that Regulates the behavior of people
What is government?
100
The citizens elect leaders to represent their rights and interests in government. The elected leaders, or representatives, do the day to day work of governing the country.
What is a Representative Democracy?
100
Group of barons forced King John to sign this document. The document included guarantees of such fundamental rights as trail by jury and due process of the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
100
Thomas Jefferson
Who is the Author of the Declaration of Independence?
100
Philadelphia
What is the city where the Constitution was written?
200
A government that recognizes God or a divine being as the ultimate authority.
What is a theocracy?
200
Worth of the Individual Equality of All Persons Majority Rule, Minority Rights Compromise Individual Freedom
What is the five concepts of a democracy?
200
Government is restricted in what it may do, and every individual has certain rights that government cannot take away.
What is limited government?
200
Preamble Statement of Beliefs List of Complaints Prior Attempts to Declare Independence Declaration of Independence
What are the five principles of the Declaration of Independence?
200
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison.
Who are the framers of the Constitution?
300
There are no representatives. Citizens are directly involved in the day to day work of governing the country. Citizens might be required to participate in lawmaking or act as judges, for example.
What is a direct democracy?
300
One must fulfill obeying the law, going to school, and paying taxes.
What is the duties of a citizen?
300
The body consisted of one house.
What is a unicameral body?
300
Congress could make war and peace, and receive ambassadors, make treaties, borrow money, set up a money system, establish post offices, build an army by asking the States for troops, fix uniform standards of weights and measures.
What are the strengths of the Articles of Confederation?
300
Called for a new government with three separate branches legislative, executive, judicial. Congress would be bicameral. Representation in each house was to be based on the State's population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
400
A king or queen rules the country. They usually come to power through their family line: The current king or queen’s oldest child becomes the next king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
400
Economic system characterized by the private ownership of capital goods; investments made by private decision, not by government directive; and success or failure determined by competition in the marketplace.
What is the free enterprise system?
400
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What is the 13 colonies?
400
Only one vote for each State, regardless of size. Congress powerless to levy taxes or duties Congress powerless to regulate commerce No executive power to enforce acts of Congress No national court system.
What are the weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
400
The Great Three Fifths, Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
What are the three compromises of the Constitution?
500
Often described as a centralized government. All powers held by the government belong to a single, central agency.
What is a unitary government?
500
Laws that regulate the uses of property in certain areas
What is zoning ordinances?
500
British Empire settled here in 1607; it was then known as the first colony.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
500
The states taxed one another goods and even banned some trade. They printed their own money. Economic chaos erupted. debts private, and public were unpaid. Violence broke out in a number of places.
What is the effects of the Article weaknesses?
500
Articles are too weak, only a strong central government can overcome the difficulties the Republic faces. Liberties that would be included in a Bill of Rights are covered in State constitutions.
What are the Federalist arguments?