The Constitution
The introduction to the U.S. Constitution
What is The Preamble?
Protects freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly, and petition.
What is the first ammendment?
Citizens elect officials to make laws and govern on their behalf (e.g., the United States federal republic).
Us! A Democratic Republic. Sometimes called a Representative Democracy.
A system where a single person holds absolute, unshared power
What is Autocracy/Authoitarianism?
An economic system in which private individuals or businesses own and control the means of production—such as factories, tools, land, and raw materials—rather than the government.
What is Capitalism? (Our system=freedom and choices because of competition).
The "middle' part of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Seven Articles?
Guarantees rights in criminal cases, including grand jury indictments, protection against double jeopardy and self-incrimination, and the right to due process (fair legal treatment)
What is the fifth ammendment?
The head of government is the elected prime minister (e.g., the United Kingdom).
What is a Parliamentory Democracy?
A single leader seizes and maintains complete authority through military power, fear, or propaganda, suppressing all political opposition.
What is a dictatorship?
This ism can harm a country by causing severe economic inefficiencies, reducing work incentives, and increasing the risk of centralized political control of goods and services.
What is Socialism?
These are defined by the first 3 Articles of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the three branches of our government?
Protects the right to keep and bear arms.
What is the second ammendment?
A king or queen acts as a ceremonial head of state while real governing power rests with an elected parliament and prime minister (e.g., the UK)
Constitutional Monarchy (Figurehead).
An extreme form of authoritarian rule where the state exercises total control over both public and private life through constant surveillance and indoctrination.
What is totalitarianism?
Political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society. (a more intense form of Socialism).
What is Communism?
The names of the three branches of our government.
What are the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches?
Protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the fourth ammendment?
A hereditary ruler (such as a king or queen) holds total, unmitigated control with no public input or constitutional limits (e.g., Oman or Saudi Arabia).
What is an Absolute Monarchy?
Governance is based on religious laws, with religious leaders or a clerical establishment serving as the supreme authority (e.g., Iran).
What is a Theocracy?
The separation of legal authority/law making and powers between the states and the federal government.
What is Federalism?
The function of each of the three branches of our government.
Executive (President, Vice President and Cabinet) Enforce the laws.
Legislative (Congress=House of Representatives and the Senate) are the Lawmakers.
Judicial (Judges from the lower courts to the Supreme Court) Judges the constitutionality of the laws.
Prohibits the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes.
What is the third ammendment?
Power rests with a small, elite group of people based on wealth, military might, family relations, or corporate influence.
What is an Oligarchy?
A form of oligarchy where society is ruled or heavily controlled by the wealthy class
What is a Plutocracy? $$$
Pride in one's culture and country.
What is Nationalism?