Types of Government
This type of government is controlled by elected officials but involves a king or queen who acts as head
What is a (constitutional) monarchy?
“The war of every man against every man.” Without government there would be “continual fear and danger of violent death and life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
Includes the rights to life, liberty, and property (happiness).
What are natural rights?
This governing document allows for Congress to levy taxes so that America could pay its debts following the Revolutionary War. It also created an executive branch and established a court system (previously, none existed).
What is the Constitution?
This person was the major constructor of the Articles of Confederation
The nations defense and its foreign policies are but two sides of the same coin: the security of the United States
What is Provide for the Common Defense?
In a democracy, public decision making must be largely a matter of give and take among the various competing interests
What is Compromise?
In this type of limited government, people elect officials to represent them; decision-making can be sluggish due to compromise.
What is representative democracy (a republic)?
“To provide justice is the most sacred of the duties of government”
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The freedoms of speech and religion, the right to protection against unreasonable search and seizure, and the rights of the accused and of those on trial.
What are individual rights?
These individuals favored a strong national/central government that could provide for the common defense at all times.
Who are the Federalists?
This many states had to agree to change an article in the Articles of Confederation
What is 13 states?
This nation was founded by those who loved liberty and prized it above all earthly possessions
What is Secure the Blessings of Liberty?
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins”
What is Individual Freedom?
This type of government requires direct participation (e.g. referendums) from all citizens which makes it difficult to maintain among larger populations.
What is direct democracy?
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary”
Who is James Madison?
The restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power through established laws, or the idea that the law applies to all, even presidents.
What is the rule of law?
This governing document failed to grant the power to tax or to create courts; it also failed to establish an executive branch capable of enforcing the nation's laws.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Under the Articles of Confederation, this many states had to say yes to pass a law or make a decision
What is 9 states?
Keeping the peace
What is Insure Domestic Tranquility?
Democracy is firmly based upon a belief in the fundamental importance of the individual
What is Worth of the Individual?
This type of government is controlled by religious leaders who impose strict moral codes and who are intolerant of religious diversity.
What is theocracy?
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power.
What is popular sovereignty?
These individuals believed local government to be more responsive to citizens' needs and insisted that a Bill of Rights was needed to protect individual freedoms.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Under the Articles of Confederation, this branch of government existed
What is the Legislative Branch?
The services that government provides in the United States are those that benefit all or most people
What is Promote General Welfare?
Acknowledges the possibility that “wrong” or less satisfactory answers will sometimes be found
What is Majority Rule, Minority Rights?
A few individuals—landed elite or military leaders—control these types of government which make quick decisions but allow citizens little control.
What are aristocracy and oligarchy?
“No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”
Who is Winston Churchill?
A political system in which legalized force is restricted through delegated and enumerated powers.
What is limited government?
This governing document declared the supremacy of federal and that the federal government must treat all states alike to avoid conflicts between states and between state and federal government.
What is the Constitution?
The Articles of Confederation gave these powers to Congress (name 1)
What is:
Make war or peace
Keep up a army and navy
Coin money
Establishing a postal service
Jurisdiction over foreign relations with the authority to make treaties and alliances
“Equal justice for all”
What is Establish Justice?
“All men are created equal”
What is Equality of All Persons?