Enlightenment Terms/People
2.1
2.1
Set of unalienable rights that all people are born with.
Double Points if you can name the thinker and the term!
What are natural rights?
For the double: Who is John Locke?
What was the date in which the US declared independence from Great Britain? (Day, Month and Year!)
When is July 4th, 1776?
What do the branches do?? These are the functions of the legislative, executive and judicial branches. (Provide all 3)
What are create/craft the law, enforce the law and interpret the law.
Sometimes called a "Super Amendment" by Mr. D, this Amendment forbids the establishment of an official religion, guarantees freedom of speech, guarantees freedom of the press and protects the right to protest.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This is the court case that established judicial review.
Double: What is judicial review?
Agreement made between the people and the government, in which the people give up some of their freedoms in exchange for a government that protects their rights.
What is social contract?
Name of the first British colony in North America.
Double if you can provide the year it was founded?
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
Double: When is 1607?
The President vetoes a bill from Congress that he does not like. This is an example of... (Hint: Enlightenment term)
What is checks and balances?
This is a system in which the federal government and state governments share power.
What is federalism?
These two men were the leaders of the Federalist Party.
Double if you can identify what kind of federal government the Federalists supported.
Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Strong federal government.
This Enlightenment thinker came up with ideas like "Separation of Powers" and "Checks and Balances"
Who is Montesquieu?
British policy of leaving the colonies to manage their own affairs, which led to the colonies developing self-government.
What is "salutary neglect" or "benign neglect"?
The Federalists added this to the Constitution in order to address the worries of the Anti-Federalists.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This Amendment makes it illegal for the government to house soldiers in your home; a subtle burn on the British
What is the 3rd Amendment?
What is neutral or neutrality?
Belief that all of a government's power comes from the people who support it.
What is popular sovereignty?
Britain's economic policy towards the colonies: Colonies exist to enrich the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Checks and balances, separation of powers and federalism all serve this purpose.
This Amendment guarantees that any powers not explicitly given to the federal government belong to the people and the states and forms the foundation of federalism. Not stated, not banned? It is in the states' hands!
What is the 10th Amendment?
George Washington established this precedent when he led the federal army to crush the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794.
What is the President serving as the Commander-in-Chief of the military?
Because all power comes from the people, government authority requires the consent of who/what in order to function?
What is governed/consent of the governed?
The colonists included this in the Declaration in order to show that the British King had become a tyrant.
Double if you can explain how this influenced the future American government.
What is a list of complaints/grievances?
Double: This led to us making a limited government with protections for the people.
This is why the Anti-Federalists wanted amendments made to the Constitution.
What is, "They wanted to protect the rights of the people?"
This clause establishes that the federal government always wins when federal and state laws come into conflict.
Double: Which two court cases helped strengthen this clause?
What is the "Supremacy Clause". Gibbons v. Ogden and McCulloch v. Maryland.
The Democratic-Republicans favored this type of interpretation of the Constitution.
Double: What kind of interpretation did the Federalists support?
What is a strict interpretation?
Federalists supported loose interpretation.