2024-25 Civics Vocab Unit 1 1-55

Legal Document that creates the framework for government, expresses a country's fundamental principles, and serves as the supreme law.

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• Written Constitution

• Constitutional Republic

• Founding Fathers

Compared govt to a monster that people needed to protect themselves from each other

• Leviathan

• Cato's Letters

• Common Sense

• The Prince

Discusses how a leader gains and keeps power.

• Leviathan

• Cato's Letters

• Common Sense

• The Prince

Published to convince people to support Freedom of Expression, Speech, and the Press.

• Leviathan

• Cato's Letters

• Common Sense

• The Prince

Explained why the American Colonies should split from England; Basically Revolution for Dummies

• Leviathan

• Cato's Letters

• Common Sense

• The Prince

Each branch of government has the ability to limit the power of the others. One action will reduce power of another branch

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• Written Constitution

• Constitutional Republic

• Founding Fathers

Government powers split between two or more strongly independent branches to prevent any one person or group from gaining too much power

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• Written Constitution

• Constitutional Republic

• Founding Fathers

Representative government based on a written set of laws.

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• Written Constitution

• Constitutional Republic

• Founding Fathers

Match the principle of Government with the connected government

• English Bill of Rights

• Separation of Powers

• Roman Twelve Tables

• Rule of Law

• Magna Carta

• Self Government

• Mayflower Compact

• Individual and Natural Rights

People are the ultimate source of the authority and legitimacy of a government

• Tabula Rasa

• Natural Laws

• Social Contract

• Popular Sovereignty

• State of Nature