Types of Gov
Power is concentrated in the hands of one individual or a small group, often obtained and maintained through force or coercion.
What is a Dictatorship?
A European intellectual movement whose key ideas included natural rights, religious tolerance, and constitutional government, leading to revolutions such as the American Revolution.
What is the Enlightenment?
The reaction of British colonists in North America to the end of Salutary Neglect.
What is protests? (Boston Tea Party, looting, tarring and feathering)
The First Article of the US Constitution establishes this branch of government, a bicameral Congress of elected officials that represent the interests of the people.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What is the First Amendment?
Political power is held by a single individual, usually a king or queen, who inherits the position and holds authority over the state.
What is a Monarchy?
He believed that a social contract existed between a ruler and his people, whereby people gave up lesser rights for the protection of more important rights.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
It declared the American colonies' independence from Britain and outlined the principles of self-government and individual rights.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Make laws, collect taxes, make rules on citizenship, declare war, etc.
What are Powers of Congress?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
What is the Second Amendment?
The people have the supreme power, typically exercised through elected representatives who govern based on majority rule and respect for individual rights.
What is a Representative Democracy?
He believed that people are born with certain natural rights that could not be restricted by a government.
Who is John Locke?
Members of the committee tasked with writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who are Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams?
The Second Article of the US Constitution establishes this branch of government, headed by the President of the United States.
What is the Executive Branch?
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury... nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Religious leaders control the government, and religious laws are used to govern the state. Politicians and clergy, are believed to be in direct contact with and/or of direct descent from the supreme being.
What is a Theocracy?
He believed in the separation of powers, arguing that government should be divided into legislative, executive, and judicial branches to prevent tyranny and ensure liberty.
Who is Montesquieu?
The failed first attempt at a United States government. It consisted of only a Senate and lacked the power to tax or enter into international treaties.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Execute the laws, serve as Commander-in-Chief, grant pardons for crimes, negotiate treaties, appoint ambassadors, etc.
What are Powers of the Presidency.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
Power rests with a small number of people. These people may or may not be distinguished by one or several characteristics, such as nobility, fame, wealth, education, or corporate, religious, political, or military control.
What is an Oligarchy?
He advocated for religious tolerance and freedom of speech and thought.
Who is Voltaire?
What compromise solved a major dispute between large and small states by creating a bicameral Congress with two distinct systems of representation: the Senate, with equal representation for every state, and the House of Representatives, with proportional representation based on population.
What is the Great Compromise/Connecticut Compromise?
The Third Article of the US Constitution establishes this branch of government, creating the Supreme Court and lower federal courts.
What is the Judicial Branch?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?