Unit 2 Vocabulary Civics

Match the following

• freedom from disturbance

• Creator-Endowed

• country's government financial liabilities

• Rule of Law

• first ten amendments to the Constitution

• public debt

• principle under which all person, institutions, and entities are accountable to the laws

• Peace

• Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness

• Bill of Rights

Match the following

• ownership of property by private parties

• private party rights

• a system of different parts to control other parts so that no one part can become powerful

• checks and balances

• division of government responsibilities limiting power

• federalism

• exchange of goods and services between businesses

• separation of powers

• system of government that control the same territory with two levels of government

• Commerce

Match the following

• form of government ruled by a few people or families

• Republicanism

• rule by a single person

• Theocracy

• theory of government that emphasizes the participation of citizens for the common good

• Representative Government

• government ruled by a divine leader

• Monarchy

• government is elected by the citizens

• Oligarchy

Match the following

• enables the public to vote directly on a proposed amendment, laws, treaties and policies

• strong defense

• political ideology that is a classless society that no one owns property

• Authoritarianism

• resistance against danger, attack, or harm; protetion

• Communism

• blind submission to people in authority

• Constitutional democracy

• the majority is limited to the rights of individuals and minorities are respected

• Direct democracy

Match the following

• a union government mainly composed of an executive, legislative, and judiciary

• 2nd Amendment

• a citizen must be given notice of what & how they will be deprived of life liberty property by gov

• due process

• calls for a cautious, isolationist foreign policy

• 1st Amendment

• Right to bear arms

• structure of government

• Freedom to assemble

• entangling alliances