Types of Government
A type of government where citizens participate by electing leaders to represent them. Citizens hold ultimate power because if they do not approve of a leader, they may vote them out.
What is Representative Democracy/Republic?
The type of government used by Athens in which the citizens voted on laws.
What is Direct Democracy?
The Mayflower Compact was the first instance of this type of government being used by colonists.
What is self-government?
This thinker believes that the role of government is to protect people's rights and represent their interests.
Who is John Locke?
The idea that all people are equal under the law and that individuals have the right to a trial by a jury of peers comes from this document.
What is the Magna Carta?
A democratic form of government in which citizens themselves make public decisions either in a popular assembly or through a popular vote
What is Direct Democracy?
A common or low-ranking person in Roman society.
What is a Plebian?
Known for being the first representative legislative assembly in the United States.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This French philosopher believed that separation of powers was the only way to keep the government from becoming too powerful.
Who is Charles Montesquieu?
The Magna Carta was originally written in this year to limit the power of King John.
What is 1215?
When one leader has absolute control over citizens’ lives. All parts of the government have to obey the one leader and the leader usually does not act on the wishes of the people.
What is a Dictatorship?
The type of government used by Rome where they have representatives elected to make laws.
What is a Representative Democracy/Republic?
What is elect representatives?
This philosopher is the author of The Leviathan.
Who is Thomas Hobbes.
The decision making body for the Iroquois League.
The Great Council.
When a king or a queen rules the government and the country. Their power is hereditary meaning it passes down through their family.
What is a Monarchy?
A noble or person of high rank in Roman society.
What is a Patrician?
Before 1618, Virginia was governed under this type of law.
What is martial law?
The Lockean idea that if the government violates people's rights the people may overthrow the government.
What is the right to revolt?
These people were responsible for selecting chiefs and held a significant amount of influence in the Iroquois Confederacy.
Who are Clan Mothers?
When a small group of people control a government
What is an Oligarchy?
By separating their government into different branches (executive, legislative, and judicial), the Romans demonstrated this political concept.
What is separation of powers?
The Pilgrims on the Mayflower received their original charter to land in Virginia from who?
Who is Lord King James of England, France, and Ireland XVIII and of Scotland LIV?
This philosopher did not attend traditional school and was self-taught.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
These two nations were the largest and most powerful of all the Iroquois nations.
Who are the Mohawk and Seneca?