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14 Cards in this Set
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3 government powers |
Legislative, executive, and judicial |
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4 characteristics of a state |
Population, territory, sovereignty, and government |
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4 theories of origin of state |
Force theory, divine right of Kings theory, evolutionary theory, and social theory |
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5 government responsibilities given in preamble |
Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote for the general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty for ourselves and our posterity |
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10 types of government |
Democracy, Republic, oligarchy, dictatorship, theocracy, unitary, federal government, president, parliamentary, and confederation |
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Birth place for democracy |
Greece |
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What did power mean during feudalism |
More land you had, more power |
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What were some things we used from Rome's form of government? |
Checks(balances), Republic - Senate(elected), consul(chief executive/President) |
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When did the power change from land to trade? |
When the new class of merchants arised |
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What is Sovereignty? |
Authority to make decisions and maintain order. |
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What is compromise? |
The blending of both opposition's ideas |
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Who is the "law giver" |
Moses |
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Four philosophers who influenced our finding fathers |
John Locke, Voltaire, William Blackstone, and Baron De Montesquien |
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5 principles of American democracy |
Worth of individual, equality of all persons, majority rule/minority rights, necessity of compromise, and individual freedom |
