1st Six Weeks Review

A plan that provides rules for government

• constitution

• ordinance

• politics

• confederation

This system of government chooses its leader from the legislature

• federal

• confederal

• unitary

• parliamentary

A loose union of independent states

• confederacy

• republic

• nation

• state

Document that declared a break from Great Britain through a list of grievances against the king

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Plan

• The Declaration of Independence

A system of government in which rule is by the people through representatives and the law is written down.

• Autocracy

• Constitutional Republic

• Direct Democracy

• Confederacy

In the idea of popular sovereignty, who has the power?

• The States

• The People

• The Federal Government

• The President

What is the Supreme Law of the Land?

• Bill of Rights

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Oath of Office

What are unalienable rights?

• Rights you are born with and cannot be taken away

• Rights given to you by your government

• Rights given to you by the Magna Carta

• Rights that King George III had given the colonists

Which is NOT an unalienable right listed in the Declaration of Independence?

• Life

• Liberty

• Pursuit of Riches

• Pursuit of Happiness

Philosopher whose book Spirit of the Laws explained the concept of separation of powers.

• John Locke

• Thomas hobbes

• Charles de Montesquieu

• William Blackstone