Government Chapter 1 section 1&2
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Freshman Const. Foundation
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Government | institution that makes and enforces laws first urpose of government order |
| Legislative Branch | Makes the laws (congress) |
| Executive Branch | Enforces the llaws that congress makes (president) |
| Judical Branch | Interprets the laws congress makes, judges decideis the law is legal/constitutional (supreme court is the highest court system) |
| Force Theory | Strongest person made the laws |
| Evolutionary Theory | Groups of families got together and said lets make laws so there is order in society |
| Divine Right | Government started when god appointed someone to make laws |
| Social Contract | peeople needed safety so they gave king the powetr to make the laws |
| Thomas Hobbes (1642) | made the social contract theory, believed life was cruel and brutal and thought we needed order and safety so people gave king power for safety |
| John Locke (1688) | said everyone is born with natural rights (life, liberty, and buy property). Locke says the purpose of government is to protect those rights and said that people had the right to overthrow the king |
| Democracy | people have all the power and government |
| direct democracy | people make and enforce the laws |
| dictatorship | run by one person |
| oligarchy | special group runs the country |
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