democracy
Across
- 2. - What is the power to be able to voice your opinion under any circomstatnces?
- 6. Greeks - Who created the idea of a democracy in 507 BCE?
- 8. - What model of democracy is run by a group of people with the same opinions?
- 10. - What type of government has the citizens vote together on who they want to represent them in official decisions instead of having to have every single person put in a vote?
- 12. - What philosopher from the Enlightenment was the first to come up with the idea of separation of powers and checks and balances that we still use in our government today?
- 13. - What is a form of government where the legislative and executive brGreeks are not separate (Great Britian)?
- 16. - What established a federal form of governernment in 1788?
Down
- 1. - What type of democracy has the citizens vote on everything?
- 3. Carta - What ancient text first came up with the idea of limiting the power that is given to the government (more power to the people)?
- 4. - What time period in the 1800s is a historical philosophical movement that established many of the ideas that helped shape our government today?
- 5. - What model of democracy means that the President has to get the consent of the people before they make a decision?
- 7. - What is a government called that has all of its branches separate (USA)?
- 9. Sovereignty - What words means that a government is run/influenced by the citizens of that area?
- 11. - What model of democracy is ruled by a small group of people that are higher up in social hierarchy?
- 14. - What is guaranteed to everyone the moment they are born?
- 15. Locke - Who created the idea of natural rights that we still use today (Life, Liberty, Property)?
- 17. - In what type of democracy do representatives vote on behalf of the people?