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- 2. 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
- 4. Supporters of the new Constitution who believed in a strong central government with limited government and checks and balances
- 8. English political philosopher whose Social Contract Theory believed that in order to live together, individuals in a society give up their natural rights to a higher authority for the sake of protection
- 9. Belief that monarchs were chosen by God; gave the monarch unlimited authority
- 11. Each branch of government is subject to a number of constitutional restraints, or checks, by the other branches so no single branch becomes too powerful
- 13. Government is defined by law and serves the people; the law is above everyone and it applies to everyone, whether ruler or the ruled
- 14. 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
- 15. Compromise reached in writing the Constitution to satisfy both small and large states by having one house of Congress with an equal number of representatives for each state and the other house’s membership determined by a state’s population
- 17. The people are the only source of power for any and all government actions; government can only govern with the consent of the governed
- 20. "Father of the Constitution” and fourth president of the United States; essential to the writing and ratification of the Constitution; he also wrote the first 10 amendments to the Constitution that were ratified as the Bill of Rights
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- 1. A representative democracy in which a small group of leaders, elected by the citizens, represents the concerns of the people; the interests of the majority take precedence over the interests of a few.
- 3. Powers saved for the states in our system of federalism, guaranteed in the 9th Amendment to the Constitution
- 5. Chosen to preside at the Constitutional Convention; he later became the first president of the United States; he set precedent by stepping down after two terms and initiating a peaceful transition of powers
- 6. Government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
- 7. 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
- 10. The distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union
- 12. First ten amendments to the Constitution, added by the first Congress in 1791; protects the civil rights and liberties of the people
- 16. Believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property; strongest influence on Thomas Jefferson, who wrote natural rights into the Declaration of Independence
- 18. Power is held at the national level, with very little power being held in political subdivisions, such as provinces, states, counties, parishes, or tow
- 19. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution that gives Congress the right to pass all laws “necessary and proper” to carry out the other powers listed in Article I