Ch. 1 Government 1.4, The Basics of Democracy

In a democracy, the majority of the people will be right more often than they will be wrong, and will be right more often than will any one person or small group.

• majority rule

• compromise

• citizen

• free enterprise system

A member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to it by birth or naturalization and is entitled to full civil rights.

• majority rule

• compromise

• citizen

• free enterprise system

An adjustment of opposing principles or systems, by modifying some aspect of each, in order to find the position most acceptable to the majority.

• majority rule

• compromise

• citizen

• free enterprise system

An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods; investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control and determined in a free market.

• majority rule

• compromise

• citizen

• free enterprise system

(1841 -1935) was a justice of the US Supreme Court from 1902 - 1932 who was nicknamed the Great Dissenter.

• James Bryce

• Winston Churchill

• Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Theodore Roosevelt

• George Washington

(1874 - 1965) was a British statesman who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 - 1945 during most of World War II and from 1951 - 1955. He was the first honorary US citizen and was granted the Nobel Prize in Literature.

• James Bryce

• Winston Churchill

• Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Theodore Roosevelt

• George Washington

(1838 - 1922) was a British politician who served as an ambassador to the United States from 1907 to 1913. He became especially popular upon writing The American Commonwealth which is a favorable study of the US government.

• James Bryce

• Winston Churchill

• Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Theodore Roosevelt

• George Washington

(1732-1799) was the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and a Founding Father. Prior to his presidency, he was a general and commander in chief during the American Revolution.

• James Bryce

• Winston Churchill

• Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Theodore Roosevelt

• George Washington

(1858 - 1919) was the 26th President of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. He was a hunter, soldier, naturalist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize who also secured the route for and began construction on the Panama Canal.

• James Bryce

• Winston Churchill

• Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Theodore Roosevelt

• George Washington