Foundations of a Republic Vocabulary

a Frenchman who came to the United States to study its prison system, and developed 5 democratic values that set the United States apart from Europe

• Alexis de Tocqueville
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• John Jay

The first 10 amendments to the constitution that guarantee our personal freedoms, protections and equality.

• Declaration of Independence
• Rights of Citizens
• Bill of Rights

System where each branch of the government can regulate the actions of the other branches.

• Federalism
• Checks and balances
• Populism

Document in 1776 explaining why the colonies wanted independence from Britain.

• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution
• Articles of Confederation

Our nation’s first motto “Out of many, one.”

• In God We Trust
• Beat Haltom
• E pluribus unum

a belief in a society of equals, with no nobility or monarchy.

• Unalienable rights
• Egalitarianism
• Checks and balances

When power is shared among state and national governments

• Federalism
• Separation of powers
• Populism

when the government doesn’t direct individual activity

• Unalienable rights
• Checks and balances
• Individualism

policy of the government not interfering; “hands off”

• Individualism
• Laissez-faire
• Separation of powers

Restricting the government’s power over the lives of its citizens

• Limited government
• Checks and balances
• Egalitarianism