Philosophers
In the book The Prince, he famously wrote the line "it is better to be feared than to be loved."
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
Introduction to the US Constitution
Preamble
(Amendment)The right to peaceably assemble.
What is the First Amendment
The number of rights included in the Declaration of Human Rights
What is 30
Hamilton and Jefferson debated about creating this.
What is a national bank
Believed that "Life, Liberty and Property," were rights that belonged to everyone.
Who is John Locke
Idea that a government's power comes from the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty
(Amendment)Right of trial by jury in suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars.
What is the Seventh Amendment
Everyone has the right to do a job, to a fair wage and join a trade union.
What are workers' rights
Lincoln used various tactics to pass this amendment.
What is the 13th amendment
Rousseau believed that the people should have the power and advocated this form of democracy.
What is Direct Democracy
Extradition is a power given to the states according to this article in the Constitution.
What is Article IV
This person shall not be quartered without the consent of the owner.
Who is a soldier
This wife of a former president helped lead the way to create the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt
Chavez and other strikers, got consumers to boycott this fruit.
What are grapes
Ideas of separation of powers, checks & balances and such contributed to the framework of the US Constitution was a philosophy of this person.
Who is Montesquieu
The idea that the national government share power with the state.
What is Federalsim.
Term for being the subject for the same crime twice.
Double-jeopardy
Have the right to affordable housing, medicine, education and childcare, enough money to live on and medical help if we are ill or old.
What is Social Security?
What is gerrymandering
A group of leaders who are motivated for their own agenda.
Oligarchy
The president is selected through this process.
What is the Electoral College.
The _____ in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
What is enumeration
In the Human Rights video, besides MLK Jr. and Nelson Mandela, this famous person also fought for human rights.
Who is Gandhi
This term in the preamble refers to future generations of people.
What is posterity