History of Democracy
This document marks the beginning of a democratic government in England.
Congress is divided into these two houses.
What is the House of Representative and the Senate?
What is a republic?
The absence of government.
What is anarchy?
A democratic system must provide a person this in order to improve himself economically, expand himself educationally and involve himself politically.
What is opportunity?
Democracy was first created in this city.
What is Athens?
This House of Representative has this many members.
What is 435?
The Constitution establishes this as the highest court in the land.
What is the Supreme Court?
A form of government in which one person rules with supreme authority, a dictatorship.
What is an autocracy?
A democratic principle characterized by equal justice and an equal right to vote.
What is equality?
This American document limits the power of the American govenrment over its citizens by guaranteeing them certain basic rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The president of the Senate (general term).
Who is the Vice-President?
The division and distribution of governmental power into national and regional levels
What is federalism?
The form of government that seeks to control every aspect of a persons life.
What is totalitarianism?
A characteristic of democracy that, for a Christian, stems from the fact that all people are created in the image of God.
What is Individual Worth?
What is Rome?
This branch of government has the right to veto a bill.
What is the executive branch?
A society in which differing opinions and parties co-exist freely.
What is a pluralistic society?
In this type of government the national government has little to no power.
What is a confederacy?
This is a characteristic of democracy because there are as many opinions as there are voters.
What is the Necessity of Compromise?
This English document laid the foundation for freedoms for all Englishmen by first guaranteeing freedoms under King John.
What is the Magna Carta?
This branch of government interprets the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This term refers to the principle that a majority of the electorate (voters) make decisions that bind the entire electorate (voters).
What is majority rule?
A form of government composed of an elite group who rule by self-appointment, dividing the governmental departments among their members.
What is an oligarchy?
This condition for democracy asks what is right rather than what is popular.
What is Moral Responsibility?