Unit 1 Gov Vocab

A form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws.

• Direct Democracy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Va Declaration Of Rights

• Republic

a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges.

• Magna Carta

• Declaration Of Independence

• Direct Democracy

• English Bill Of Rights

English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679)

• Hobbes

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property.

• Montesquieu

• Magna Carta

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

Served as a model for the Bill of Rights in the Constitution

• English Bill of Rights

• VA Declaration of Rights

• Va Statute of Religious Freedom

• Declaration of Independence

A form of government in which the king retains his position as head of state, while the authority to tax and make new laws resides in an elected body.

• Republic

• Direct Democracy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Representative Democracy

1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade)

• Rights of Englishmen

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

Guaranteed people would be free to choose a religion

• Religious Freedom Restoration Act

• Civil Rights Act

• First Amendment of the Constitution

• VA Statute of Religious Freedom

Certain basic rights that all subjects of the English monarch were believed to have

• Rights of Englishmen

• Common Law

• Rule of Law

• Natural Rights

French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755)

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Hobbes