Unit 1 Vocab: Government 2024

A group of people who feel united by some common bond, usually race, religion, language, custom, etc.

• Nation

• State

• Country

• Nation-State

A political community that occupies a definite territory, has an organized government, and is not under the control of anyone else.

• Protectorate

• Province

• State

• Nation

The authority to make your own laws and govern yourself. Independence.

• Imperialism

• Sovereignty

• Nationalism

• Statehood

Inherent or natural rights possessed by all as a birthright of humanity. (Life, Liberty, Property/Pursuit of Happiness)

• Citizenship Rights

• Women's Rights

• Religious Rights

• Unalienable Rights

The idea that in order for people to live in groups, they must give up some of their freedom to the government in exchange for protection of their natural rights.

• Social Contract Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Force Theory

• Theory of Human Evolution

Period of time in the 18th Century when A group of philosophers (John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, and Voltaire) sought to apply the rigors of scientific inquiry to study human society. They developed rational laws to describe social behavior and applied their findings in support of human rights (natural rights) and liberal economic theories.

• The Gilded Age

• The Reformation

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Enlightenment

Written, or unwritten, set of rules which restrains the powers of the government and guarantees certain rights to the people.

• Constitution

• Republic

• Divine Right

• Contract

A limited government with elected representatives serving at the will of the people.

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

• Democracy (Pure)

• Republic

English political philosopher who wrote Two Treatises of Government and was a major influence on Thomas Jefferson's ideas about natural rights and the Social Contract.

• Charles de Montesquieu

• William Blackstone

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

Our first president, and the man who created the tradition of a two term presidency and the Cabinet.

• John Adams

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Alexander Hamilton