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What is definition of tyranny? |
Individual will and passion |
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What is the definition of anarchy? |
Government law and order.
Free for all - licentiousness and lawlessness |
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What did the Founding Generation believe about the effects of tyranny and anarchy on people? |
Tyranny/Anarchy - unpredictable, irrational, and arbitrary
Brought out the worst in people |
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Tyranny and Anarchy, what did the Founders believe to be the great tragedy of human history? |
Living a life of tyranny lead to anarchy |
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What did the Founders know about the true nature of liberty? |
Delicate balance between tyranny and anarchy
Law, order and stability |
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Tyranny and Anarchy, what were the two most difficult and perplexing questions that faced the Founding Generation? |
How do we give people freedom without unleashing licentiousness to the point of distruction?
How do we grant leaders without corrupting them with the power given? |
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What should we know about the Founding Generation's understanding of the natures of men? |
Self-interest = universal, natural, God given
Reason and positive thinking
Predictable human actions |
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When the founders spoke of "republican principles", "democratic principles", or "popular government", what did they mean? |
Government comes from the sovereign power and will of the people
Voice of the majority for the poeple to be heard
Self governing
Common wealth - industry - temperance - simplicity - decency- compromise - obedience |
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When the Founders spoke of a republic and a democracy, what did they mean? |
Republic - laws are made by representatives of the people
Democracy - all citizens assemble and make the laws themselves |
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What bothered the Founding Generation about "popular government"? |
Excesses of both forms of government - republic and democratic
Uncontrolled passion and self interest |
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Why did the Founding Generation choose to create republics rather than democracies? |
Republics can better filter out and control the passions of the people - the excesses of popular government
Geographically better for bringing people together to make a decision (using representatives) |
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Important things about the Founding Generation believing in a republic |
Wise and frugal representatives - make, enforce, and interpret law
Majority will
Broader view of the common good |
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How did the word democracy change meaning in the early 1800's? |
direct democracy - a form of government in which all the people participate in the making of the law
any government that arises from the sovereign power and will of the people |
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What have become the essential characteristics of any modern republic or "democracy"? |
Free and open elections
Government that responds to public opinion
stronger guarantees of human rights and individual liberties
increased sensitivity to social and economic inequalities |
