Unit 2 vocabulary

3. Roman ideal on the willingness to serve one's country
7. The principle that the people are the ultimate source of the authority and legitimacy of a government
10. Rights that all people have by virtue of being a human such as the right to life itself, to liberty, and the ownership of property
12. The idea that the powers of a government should be split between two or more strongly independent branches of government to prevent any one person or group from gaining to much power
13. A theory that stated people in society agreed to give up some of their freedom to government in exchange for security and order. In addition, if a government acted contrary to the general will, the people has the freedom to break the social contract and create a new one
15. Favored a loose association of states like it was under the Articles of Confederation and pro Bill of Rights
16. A political system in which the powers exercised by the government are restricted, usually by a written constitution
17. Basic individual rights of people such as the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

1. A system in which each branch of government can limit the power of the other branches
2. A formal proclamation that the American colonies would now be an independent country separate from Great Britain
4. Defending the Constitution campaigned by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
5. Favored a strong central/federal government, pro Constitution
6. A one house legislature branch (New Jersey Plan)
8. The idea that government should be based on an established set of principles
9. A system of government in which power is divided between a central government and smaller regional governments
11. A two house legislative branch (Virginia Plan)
14. A universal set of moral principles that can be applied to any culture or system or justice