Study sets matching "us american government"
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Limited Government
Representative Government
Magna Carta
Petition of Right
government is restricted in what it may do and each individual…
system of government in which public policies are made by offi…
the great charter--at Runnymede in 1215. The power of monarchy…
limited the King's power. Monarch was subject to the law of th…
Limited Government
government is restricted in what it may do and each individual…
Representative Government
system of government in which public policies are made by offi…
feudalism
charters
Magna Carta
Petition of Right
a rigid social and political hierarchy based on land ownership
official written agreements by which the English government gr…
a document barons forced King John to sign in 1215, declaring…
a document that Parliament forced King Charles to sign in 1628…
feudalism
a rigid social and political hierarchy based on land ownership
charters
official written agreements by which the English government gr…
State
Nation
Nation-State
Consensus
A political community that occupies a definite territory and h…
A group of people united by bonds of race, language, custom, t…
A country in which the territory of both the nation and the st…
An agreement about basic beliefs.
State
A political community that occupies a definite territory and h…
Nation
A group of people united by bonds of race, language, custom, t…
Alexander Hamilton
Cabinet
Tariff
Secretary of Treasury
First Secretary of the Treasury. ... LOOSE Constructionist.... Advoc…
ADVISORS to the President
A TAX on imported goods
Cabinet member in charge of MONEY.
Alexander Hamilton
First Secretary of the Treasury. ... LOOSE Constructionist.... Advoc…
Cabinet
ADVISORS to the President
Federalism
Checks & Balances
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
What system gives national, state, and local governments separ…
What system divides power between the President, Congress, and…
Which branch of government includes the President who has the…
Which branch of government includes the House and Senate, whic…
Federalism
What system gives national, state, and local governments separ…
Checks & Balances
What system divides power between the President, Congress, and…
Under the Articles of Confederation
The first 10 Amendments
Not included in the 1st Amendment.
The 8th Amendment
The gov't was very weak.
The Bill of Rights.
The right to own a gun.
Prevents a police officer from entering your home.....and crue…
Under the Articles of Confederation
The gov't was very weak.
The first 10 Amendments
The Bill of Rights.
Federalism
Checks & Balances
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
What system gives national, state, and local governments separ…
What system divides power between the President, Congress, and…
Which branch of government includes the President who has the…
Which branch of government includes the House and Senate, whic…
Federalism
What system gives national, state, and local governments separ…
Checks & Balances
What system divides power between the President, Congress, and…
Legislative power
Executive power
Judicial power
Population
The power to make laws and to frame piblic policies (Congress)
The power to to execute, enforce, and administer laws (Preside…
The power to interpret laws and to determine the meaning and t…
A state must have people who want to be apart of the state
Legislative power
The power to make laws and to frame piblic policies (Congress)
Executive power
The power to to execute, enforce, and administer laws (Preside…
Federalism
Checks & Balances
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
What system gives national, state, and local governments separ…
What system divides power between the President, Congress, and…
Which branch of government includes the President who has the…
Which branch of government includes the House and Senate, whic…
Federalism
What system gives national, state, and local governments separ…
Checks & Balances
What system divides power between the President, Congress, and…
Federalism
Checks & Balances
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
What system gives national, state, and local governments separ…
What system divides power between the President, Congress, and…
Which branch of government includes the President who has the…
Which branch of government includes the House and Senate, whic…
Federalism
What system gives national, state, and local governments separ…
Checks & Balances
What system divides power between the President, Congress, and…
The first gathering of colonial leaders…
Colonists who chose to fight for indepe…
List of 10 resolutions presented to Kin…
Militia of local men, ready to fight at…
First Continental Congress
Patriots
Declaration of Rights
Minutemen
The first gathering of colonial leaders…
First Continental Congress
Colonists who chose to fight for indepe…
Patriots
John Locke
Magna Carta (1215)
Petition of Right (1628)
English Bill of Rights (1689)
English philosopher whose Treatises of Government espousing na…
A charter agreed to by King John of England to make peace betw…
A major English constitutional document that sets out specific…
An Act of the Parliament of England that deals with constituti…
John Locke
English philosopher whose Treatises of Government espousing na…
Magna Carta (1215)
A charter agreed to by King John of England to make peace betw…
Judicial, Executive, Legislative
Presidential, Congressional, Federal Co…
Senate, House of Representatives
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Name the 3 branches of the US Government
Name the 3 offices of the US Government
Name the 2 bodies of Congress
Name how old you have to be to be a US representative
Judicial, Executive, Legislative
Name the 3 branches of the US Government
Presidential, Congressional, Federal Co…
Name the 3 offices of the US Government
Bicameral
Manga carta
Petition of right
English bill of rights
Two chamber, legislature
The great charter.
Document required monarchs to obtain parliaments approval befo…
No longer would mo arches be able to enact laws, raise taxes,…
Bicameral
Two chamber, legislature
Manga carta
The great charter.
Preamble
Article 1, Section 1
Article 1, Section 2
Article 1, Section 3
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more pe…
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Con…
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chos…
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senat…
Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more pe…
Article 1, Section 1
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Con…
Federalism
Checks & Balances
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
What system gives national, state, and local governments separ…
What system divides power between the President, Congress, and…
Which branch of government includes the President who has the…
Which branch of government includes the House and Senate, whic…
Federalism
What system gives national, state, and local governments separ…
Checks & Balances
What system divides power between the President, Congress, and…
Why was the New England Confederation f…
Albany Plan of Union plays an important…
Why did the colonists believe that only…
How was the Stamp Act related to the Fr…
to defend against native Americans
the Declaration of Independence
the colonists were far away and Britain would not let us have…
Britain needed them to pay off war debt
Why was the New England Confederation f…
to defend against native Americans
Albany Plan of Union plays an important…
the Declaration of Independence
Alexander Hamilton
Anti-Federist
Articles of Confederation
autocracy
First United States Secretary of the Treasury and an early sup…
Does not believe in the constitution
1st government of the United States, created strong state gove…
A government which only one person has power.
Alexander Hamilton
First United States Secretary of the Treasury and an early sup…
Anti-Federist
Does not believe in the constitution
Federalism
Checks & Balances
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
What system gives national, state, and local governments separ…
What system divides power between the President, Congress, and…
Which branch of government includes the President who has the…
Which branch of government includes the House and Senate, whic…
Federalism
What system gives national, state, and local governments separ…
Checks & Balances
What system divides power between the President, Congress, and…
confederacy
federal
autocracy
dictatorship
a group of people, countries, organizations, etc., that are jo…
of or relating to a form of government in which power is share…
a form of government in which a country is ruled by a person o…
rule by a dictator : rule, control, or leadership by one perso…
confederacy
a group of people, countries, organizations, etc., that are jo…
federal
of or relating to a form of government in which power is share…
What are 2 basic principles of the Engl…
Where did the idea of limited governmen…
What was King John forced to sign by th…
What 2 bodies of government in England…
limited government and representative government
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta to recognize the rights of citizens and limite…
Parliament and the monarchy
What are 2 basic principles of the Engl…
limited government and representative government
Where did the idea of limited governmen…
Magna Carta
Confederation
Executive Power
Federal Government
Government
an organization that consists of a number of parties or groups…
enforce the laws (president/prime minister)
is a system that divides up power between a strong national go…
keep order and establish rule
Confederation
an organization that consists of a number of parties or groups…
Executive Power
enforce the laws (president/prime minister)
Politics
Power
Government
Thomas Hobbes
the study of government of states and other political units
one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
the system or form by which a community or other political uni…
wrote "Leviathan" and believed people were naturally cruel, gr…
Politics
the study of government of states and other political units
Power
one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
The Bill of Rights
The U.S. Constitution
The Cabinet
First Amendment
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Created in…
The supreme law of the United States of America. Originally co…
The most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of…
Guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly,…
The Bill of Rights
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Created in…
The U.S. Constitution
The supreme law of the United States of America. Originally co…
What is the supreme law of the land?
What does the Constitution do?
The idea of self-government is in the f…
What is an amendment?
the Constitution
-sets up the government... -defines the government... -protects basi…
"We the People"
-a change (to the Constitution)... -an addition (to the Constitut…
What is the supreme law of the land?
the Constitution
What does the Constitution do?
-sets up the government... -defines the government... -protects basi…