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Quidwai-WH Unit One
Standards 10.1-10.2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| direct democracy | citizens represent themselves |
| indirect democracy / republic/ representative government | citizens elect other individuals to represent them |
| the three branches of US government are | legislative executive judicial |
| enlightenment | intellectual movement in the 1700s that led to the rise of revolutions and democratic ideas |
| locke | said that all people had natural rights of life liberty and property |
| hobbes | said people were born nasty and selfish and that without government control there would be chaos |
| montesquieu | said that government should be divided into three branches |
| magna carta | first democratic document to limit the power of the king |
| english bill of rights | established representative government in England and guaranteed free elections and meetings of Parliament |
| french declaration of rights of man and citizen | said that men are born free and remain free and equal in rights |
| american declaration of independence | saidthat all men have unalienable rights and created the idea of popular sovreignty that government will come through consent of the people |
| US bill of rights | guaranteed freedoms of speech, press, religion, trial by jury, protect people from cruel and unusual punishment |
| tyrant | leader who took over a government |
| philosophers | ancient greek thinkers |
| plato | tyrant is troublesome when he loves his power to much and ignores what is good for people |
| aristotle | tyrant has too much power and acts selfishly and against will of people |
| judeo-christian views | every person has worth and dignity people can choose between right and wrong people must help others |
| greco-roman views | people must govern themselves citizens should participate in government the world has natural laws there should be written law |
| wollstonecrafy | fought for womens equality in France |
| federalism | power is divided between state and national governemnt |
| monarchy | rule by king of queen |
| Congree of Vienna | met to discuss Europe after Napoleons rule, led by Metternich, prevent future revolutions |
| Principle of Legitimacy | monarchs would be restored to their thrones |
| First estate | clergy |
| second estate | nobles |
| third estate | rest of Frenchpopulation |