Purpose & Parts of Government
This is one purpose of government: helping people solve disagreements.
What is resolving conflicts?
In this type of government, the people have political power.
What is democracy?
This document declared that the colonies were free from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This principle means that government power is split between three separate branches.
What is separation of powers?
This is the first ten amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A state must have these four things: government, land, sovereignty, and this group of people.
What is population?
This type of government is ruled by one king or queen.
What is monarchy?
One of the main reasons this document was a failure was because it made the national government too weak.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Name three principles of the Constitution.
What are (any three): individual rights, popular sovereignty, limited government, republicanism, federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, and rule of law.
This amendment protects freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
What is the first amendment?
This is what the legislative branch does.
What is make laws?
These thinkers believed in natural rights and limited government.
Who are the Enlightened Thinkers?
The fact that the Articles of Confederation didn't work well led to the creation of this document.
What is the Constitution?
This principles means that the people hold the power.
What is popular sovereignty?
There are this many amendments to the Constitution.
What are 27 amendments?
The President and Vice President are part of this branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
These are rights people are born with.
What are natural/individual rights?
Problems with the Articles of Confederation led to a meeting where the Constitution was written.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This principle allows one branch to limit the power of another branch.
What are checks and balances?
This group of people wanted a Bill of Rights added to the Constitution to protect people's individual freedoms.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
This principles means that all government officials need to follow the law.
What is rule of law?
This group supported the Constitution, while the Anti-Federalists felt that it gave the national government too much power.
Who are the Federalists?
Enlightenment ideas supported this kind of government, which has limits on its power.
What is limited government?
These amendments protected peoples fundamental rights after the Civil War.
What are the 13th through 15th amendments?