Unit Two Lesson Three Government

The belief that governments should operate according to an agreed set of principles

• Constitutionalism

• Popular sovereignty

• Individual rights

• Rule of Law

The rights and liberties that can be claimed by individuals by virtue of being human

• Limited Government

• Rule of Law

• Representative government

• Individual rights

A political system in which the powers exercised by the government are restricted

• Limited Government

• Rule of Law

• Popular sovereignty

• Majority rule

The idea that decisions approved by more than half of the people in a society will be accepted and observed by all

• Popular sovereignty

• Separation of powers

• Rule of law

• Majority rule

The principle that the people are the ultimate source of the authority and legitimacy of a government

• Majority rule

• Popular sovereignty

• Individual rights

• Limited government

A political system in which power is exercised by elected leaders who work in the interests of the people

• Rule of law

• Representative government

• Limited government

• Majority rule

The principle that government is based on clear and fairly enforced laws and that no one is above the law

• Limited government

• Majority rule

• Rule of law

• Popular sovereignty

The idea that the powers of a government should be split between two or more strongly independent branches

• Individual rights

• Separation of Powers

• Limited government

• Rule of law

Where did colonial thinkers get their ideas about representative democracy?

• Christian Doctrine

• Ancient Judaism

• Athens, Greece

• Roman Republic

What did the Magna Carta do?

• Set limits on the monarch's power

• Defined the rights and duties of English nobles

• Established the principle of the rule of law

• All answers are correct