Mrs.Heaths government crossword

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  1. 2. Democracy type of democracy based on the protection of individual rights from the tyranny of the majority and on the consent of the governed to establish political authority
  2. 4. Hamilton considered intelligent and decisive, he was a leading supporter of the Constitution and helped write the Federalist Papers
  3. 7. one branch has too much power
  4. 8. Government 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
  5. 11. Sovereignty the people are the only source of power for any and all government actions; government can only govern with the consent of the governed
  6. 12. government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
  7. 13. Powers powers saved for the states in our system of federalism, guaranteed in the 9th Amendment to the Constitution
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  1. 1. the citizens have political authority and are bound by social contract to obey laws with their rights guaranteed by a constitution; citizens willingly subordinate their private, selfish interests to the common good
  2. 3. of Rights first ten amendments to the Constitution, added by the first Congress in 1791; protects the
  3. 4. group of people who feared the new government created by Constitution; gave too much power to the national government at the expense of individual rights
  4. 5. of Confederation 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
  5. 6. rights and liberties of the people
  6. 9. Hobbes English political philosopher whose Social Contract Theory believed that in order to live together, indiv Thomas Jefferson iduals in a society give up their natural rights to a higher authority for the sake of protection
  7. 10. Locke believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property; strongest influence on Thomas Jefferson, who wrote natural rights into the Declaration of Independence
  8. 12. Jefferson 3rd president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence; he did not take part in writing the Constitution because he was in France at the time. He was a strong advocate for the addition of a Bill of Rights