Civics Semester Study Guide

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property. (ideas later used by Thomas Jefferson)

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

What is Social Contract?

• Government protects the people, people follow(give power) to the government
• Government protects the people and people don't have a say in government.
• People cannot trust any government, and must rule themselves.

What 13th century document established the rights listed below?
- Basic rights of citizens
- Rule of law
- Representative assemblies

• the Constitution
• Napoleonic Code
• the Communist Manifesto
• the Magna Carta

What does Bicameral mean?

• 2 camels
• Two Houses--upper house and lower house who had the power of the purse to approve new taxes and spending
• One major portion of government

How did the U.S. Constitution solve a problem created by the Articles of Confederation?

• It avoided the issue of states rights

• It allowed the states to elect representatives

• It prevented (stopped) the amendment of federal laws

• It enabled (allowed) the federal government to collect taxes

a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses

• Constitution

• Bicameral

• Ordinance of 1785

• Articles of Confederation

• Ordinance

the first constitution of the United States

• Constitution

• Bicameral

• Ordinance of 1785

• Articles of Confederation

• Ordinance

agreement providing that enslaved persons would count as three-fifths of a person in determining representation

• Shay's Rebellion

• Constitutional Convention

• Three-fifths Compromise

• Electoral College

People who left their native country to move to a different country

• Ethnic Group

• Tolerance

• Immigrant

• Refugee

What are the three branches of government?

• Congress, House of Representatives and the Senate

• President, Vice President and the Cabinet

• Executive, Legislative and Judicial

• Judge, Laws and Executive