Misc.
The magna carta was an early example of this...
What is Limited Government?
Name two problems with the Articles of Confederation
What is the inability to collect taxes, regulate commerce, amass an army, little power to enforce laws.
This person is responsible for Social Contract Theory
Who is John Locke?
This government style features one strong central government that has all the power, they can give power to smaller groups but do not have to.
What is Unitary?
This is the idea that all government officials in the United States must obey the law, in other words the law governs the land not individuals.
What is Rule of Law?
This branch of government has the power to impeach BOTH other branches
What is the Legislative branch.
This resulted in the collapse of the Articles of Confederation
What is Shay's Rebellion
This person is responsible for checks and balances
Who is Montesquieu?
What are the two forms of Authoritarian government?
The term for a government in which power rests in the hands of the people
What is Popular Sovreignty?
This government system has the states grant power to a central government while remaining independant.
What is Confederate?
What allowed Congress to manage interstate trade?
What is the Commerce Clause?
John Locke claimed we have three basic natural rights, name them!
What are life, liberty, and property.
This government divides power between state and central government.
What is Federal?
This is the power of the Supreme Court to decide that a law is unconstitutional.
What is Judicial Review?
The legislative have direct control over the prime minister, even extending to the ability to remove them from power.
Federalists favored a government with this feature
What is a strong central government
This is the name for the idea that people give government the power to rule to protect their rights.
What is the Social Contract
This form of government is ran by one individual, the people have little opportunity to voice their opinions, and if a vote is conducted there is often only one political party.
What is Autocracy?
This is the idea that no one branch of government should be given all of the power.
What is separation of powers
This gave congress the power to tax and manage interstate trade.
What is the Commerce Clause!
The Anti-Federalists supported the inclusion of what to the Constitution?
What is a bill of rights!
This is the name of the novel written by Montesquieu that influenced the constitution.
What is the Spirit of Laws?
DAILY DOUBLE
What are the two types of democracy, and what makes each unique?
What is Representative and Direct Democracy
Representative has elected officials vote in the people's stead
Direct allows voters to participate directly in all votes that take place
Name two checks the legislative branch has over the executive branch
What is the idea that the senate must approve all treaties before they go into effect, the Senate may impeach the president, the senate may override a veto.