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AP GOV 1.1-1.3 vocab

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show An English philosopher who wrote "The Leviathan."  
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Thomas Hobbes beliefs   show
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John Locke and his beliefs   show
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau   show
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show A French philosopher who introduced the idea of separation of powers in the government-executive,legislature, and judiciary  
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show Rights that people have under Natural Laws. Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are the Natural Rights listed on the Declaration of Independence  
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show the idea that the government is authorized by citizens  
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Republicanism   show
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show a government kept under control by law,checks, & balances, and separation of powers  
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Representative republic   show
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John Adams   show
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Thomas Jefferson   show
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show Founding father of the USA, helped the US free themselves from Britain and helped with the making of the DOI  
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The Declaration of Independence (DOI)   show
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show 4th president of the US and made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing the Federalists papers  
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show First U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and also helped ratify the Constitution by writing the Federalists Papers. Also made the idea of a National bank  
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show 1st U.S. president and commanded the Continental army during the American Revolution  
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show A document that established the rules & principles that the U.S. government must follow. Main purpose was to create a Republic with a system of checks & balances to balance power between federal,judicial, and legislative branches of government.  
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show a model of democracy in which a small number of people, usually those who are wealthy and well-educated, influence political decision making.  
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show a group of persons that have a common identifying interest and organize to influence the government  
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show a model of democracy in which citizens have the power to participate & make policy decisions  
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Pluralist Democracy   show
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Representative Democracy   show
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Anti-Federalists   show
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Federalists   show
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Initiative   show
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Referendum   show
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show a group whose interests are in control with the general good  
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Federalist No.10   show
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show Essay against the Federalists; argued that a Republican form of government was wrong for the USA and that a Confederacy is better; No.1 on the anti-federalists papers  
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show unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor  
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Concern of Federalist No.10   show
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Solution for Federalist NO.10   show
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show Basically take away power from factions with oversaturation  
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show Concerned about if a Confederacy of state governments or a powerful central government was better for the US  
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show Brutus solution was that the US should be a Confederacy. he believed that a Republican form of government would not be right for the USA so he proposed a Confederacy was better.  
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