Unit 2 Study Guide - Quiz Flashcards
In a ________ government led by the citizens, ______________ must obey the laws. Constitutions, statements of rights, or other laws define the limits of those in power so they cannot take advantage of their elected positions
limited; everyone
Our constitutional government and the system of checks and balances in the thre branches of U.S. government.
The three branches of government are:
- Legislative
- Executive
- Judicial
In an _______________, control is placed solely iwth the ruler and his/her appointees and there are no ________ imposed on his/her authority.
Examples:
- unlimited government; limits
- Castro’s control or influence in Cuba is a totalitarian
- Saddam Hussein’s regime in which he had unlimited power and control over the people of Iraq
- Many mideastern countries experiencing popular uprisings in order to limit the power of authoritarian or regimes
Recognize that each country has its own
form of government
Governments moving toward democracy:
- South Africa
- Russia
- Poland
- Iraq
Characteristics of Limited Government
(example: United States)
- Multi-party, free elections
- Limitations placed on rulers by laws
- Freedom of speech and other human rights
Characteristics of Unlimited Government:
Example: Cuba
- One-party, no elections, no controlled elections
- Written laws suspended (??), but not upheld
- Repression of Rights
- Censorship of press, disappearances of opposition groups, torture, curfew
- Control in hands of ruler
Reasons for limiting the power of government
- Human rights
- torture was common in dictatorship period, mothers of the disappeared brought this to light in _________, religious groups published about it in Brazil
- Economic Freedom
- Tyranny
- Roles of federal, state, and local governments in U.S. and other countries
- Iraq’s government then and now
- Magna Carta
- Bill of Rights
- U.S. Citizenship as compared to citizenship in selected countries
Political Philosopher
A person who studies/writes about basic ideas of the government.
The framers of the Constitution put the ideas of the political philosophers in the Constitution.
Founders
The men and women who lived in America during the colonial period who influenced creation of our government.
Framers
The men who wrote our constitution
(plan of government)
in 1787 in Philidelphia.
Natural Rights Philosophy
John Locke’s political philosophy which is based on imagining what life would be like in a “state of nature”.
State of Nature
A situation where there is no government, no laws, no consequeces to govern how we live together.
Anarchy
Human Nature
Traits of personality and character that people possess
Laws of Nature
(Natural Rights)
Compare/Connect how John Locke’s “natural right’s philosophy” relates to his concerns about people’s “human nature” and “laws of nature” when they exist in a “state of nature”.
Laws that exist in a “state of nature”. These laws are not written down nor agreed upon by the people. Natural laws are simply the morals or values that we may all possess that are influenced by our human nature.
________________
No government - No law
Primary Sources
- Fossils
- Ancient Structures
- When interviewing
- Old drawings
- Undeleted emails
- Letters
- People
