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socialstudies
unit 1, lesson 1,2,3,4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a political philosopher? | A person who studies and writes about basic ideas about government. |
| How long had americans been self-governing? | Over one hundred fifty years before the Revolution. |
| What are ideas included in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights? | Ideas of natural rights, republicanism, and constitutionalism. |
| What are natural rights? | everyone had a right to life, liberty, and property. |
| What is another word for natural rights? | basic rights or fundamental rights. |
| Who is John Locke? | A famous English philosopher. He wrote a book called Two Treatises of Civil Government in 1690. |
| What is the book Two Treatises of Civil Government about? | natural rights. |
| What is the purpose of government? | to protect the peoples natural rights. |
| What is absolute power? | power without limits. |
| What situation is a state of nature? | where there was no government and no laws. |
| What agreement is called a social compact or social contract? | an agreement people make among themselves to create a government to rule them and protect their natural rights. |
| In a social compact or social contract what do people consent to obey? | the laws created by that government. |
| When was the Roman Republic? | it lasted from 509 B.C. to 27 B.C. |
| What was the Roman Republic? | a government existed in ancient Europe which greatly influenced the ideas of the Founders. |
| What were the wealthy upper class called? | aristocrats. |
| What was the government of Rome called? | a republican government. |
| What does civic virtue mean? | that both citizens and their leaders lived modest lives. |
| What is a dictator? | a supreme ruler with unlimited power. |
| What is the definition of constitution? | a framework for a government. It tells how the government is organized and run. |
| What is a constitutional government? | when the powers of the person or group running the government are limited. |
| What is a government of unlimited power called? | an autocratic or dictatorial government. |
| What are two ways of organizing government? | separation of powers and checks and balances. |
| Which branch has the power to make laws? | a legislative branch. |
| Which branch has the power to carry out and enforce laws? | an executive branch. |
| Which branch has th power to manage conflicts over the interpretation, application, and enorcement of laws? | a judicial branch. |
| What does the phrase checks and balances mean? | that powers given to the different branches of government are balanced. |
| What are the two houses of Congress? | house of Representatives and the Senate. |
| What can the house of Representatives and the Senate do? | each can check the power of the other by refusing to pass a law proposed by the other house. |
| What does it mean to refuse to sign a law? | veto the law. |
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