Government Vocab

2. French writer who introduced the idea of separation of powers and checks and balances to prevent one part of government from becoming too powerful
4. first ten amendments to the Constitution, protects the civil rights and liberties of the people
5. believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property; strongest influence on Thomas Jefferson, who wrote natural rights into the Declaration of Independence
7. powers saved for the states in our system of federalism, guaranteed in the 9th Amendment to the Constitution
10. first plan of government adopted in the United States after the revolution; it was a loose association of states with no authority to tax, no national army, and no chief executive
12. the government is not all powerful; its powers are limited, and the acts of the government are those willed by the people Constitution were written
13. division of the powers in our government among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches; no one branch has too much power

1. compromise between slave states and free states to count three-fifths of the slave population in a state when allocating how many representatives a state was entitled to in the House of Representatives
3. king/queen controls all aspect of life: social, economic, and political – often times tied to divine right of kings (authority from God)
6. “Father of the Constitution” and fourth president of the United States
8. government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
9. explains the purposes of the Constitution
11. belief that monarchs were chosen by God; gave the monarch unlimited authority