Unit 1 Foundations of American Government including the Constitution

The Declaration of Independence explained that the colonists believed government should be ____________________.

• a social compact between citizens and government

• a situation where one person holds all of the power

• a small group of rich people who hold all of the power against the citizens

• a creation that did not give rights and freedoms to citizens

What document created the first government in the United States?

• The Bill of Rights to the US Constitution

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Magna Carta

• The Articles of Confederation

The formation of three branches of government so that no one part of the government became too powerful

• limited government

• natural rights

• separation of powers

• social contract

Rights that the government cannot take away such as life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

• limited government

• natural rights

• separation of powers

• social contract

The idea that power of the government can no longer be all-powerful and that the government cannot take away rights such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

• limited government

• natural rights

• separation of powers

• social contract

System in which the people choose their leaders to govern themselves - this is the type government of the U.S.

• democracy

• direct democracy

• representative democracy

• social democracy

Makes laws

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

• Legislative Branch

• All of these

Enforces laws

• Judicial Branch

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

• All of these

Interprets laws

• Legislative Branch

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

• All of these

A two-chamber legislative body, like the U.S. Congress

• Unicameral

• Bicameral

• Polytheistic

• Theocracy