Government Test 1/26 Flashcards
How long has America been independent?
239.5 years
How was America founded?
On a Christian foundation, of the people by the people and for the people
Facts about the flag
red represents courage, white purity, blue loyalty. Stripes are 13 original states (colonies), blue is the union and contains 50 white stars which are all states we now have
Who wrote the pledge
Francis Bellamy, in God we trust added in 1956
National anthem
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key in War of 1812, adopted in 1931
System of government in which God himself rules personally or through representatives
Theocracy
Rule by one whose will is supreme
Autocracy
People rule by popular vote o indirectly via elected representatives
Democracy
System of government in which ruler has unlimited power, goes down family line
Absolute monarchy
System of gov in which ruler’s power is limited by consititution and equal to a body of elected reps
Constitutional Monarchy
System of government in which ruler acquires power
Dictatorship
Ruler controls all aspects of society
Totalitarian
System of government control over economy (not a form of government)
Socialism
State or national socialism in which power is vested in dictator and/or his specific political party
Facism
People rule directly by pop vote
Direct Democracy
People rule indirectly through elected representatives
Democratic Republic
People nd representatives are limited by constitutions
Constitutional Republic
A totalitarian dictatorship by one or more persons that advocates the violent, revolutionary overthrowof the existing economy, political and social order and sets up a tyrannical state that dominates all things by force and terror
Communism
Magna Carta
Part of England’s striving for liberty, included freedoms like no taxation without representation, trial by jury, habeas corpus, due process
English and US Bill of Rights
Very similar, not as detailed
Day of US Independence
July 4, 1776
First and Second Continental Congress
1: pledged loyalty to crown but protests parliamentary interference with American rights
2: began to assume political power
Types of charters
Proprietary: king grants land to a subject
Royal: King over
Self-Governing: ppl rule themselves (Rhode ISland and Connecticut)
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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