Vocab Words by Christopher Cassady https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe By: Chris Cassady en-us 2018-01-24 16:08:29 UTC 2026-01-03 02:48:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Unitary Government - State governed by a single person, central government is ultimately supreme. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/224290773 2018-01-24 16:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/224290773 Federalism - Federalism is the mixed mode of government, combining a general government with regional governments in a single political system. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227617834 2018-02-02 18:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227617834 Con-federal Government - confederation that a system of government with sovereign states delegate power to central government. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227617940 2018-02-02 18:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227617940 Democracy - A Government where there's freedom, and people vote for themselves. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227618334 2018-02-02 18:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227618334 Dictatorship - Controlled Government, with only one person in charge of everything and everyone. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227618421 2018-02-02 18:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227618421 Autocracy - System of Government where one person has absolute power. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227618515 2018-02-02 18:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227618515 Oligarchy - Power of structure to guide people in the right direction. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227618657 2018-02-02 18:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227618657 Compromise - Deal between two different parties, who come to a agreement. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227618783 2018-02-02 18:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227618783 Limited Government - governmental power restricted by law and usually in a written constitution. This is key in history of liberalism. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619013 2018-02-02 18:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619013 Representative Government - type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619106 2018-02-02 18:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619106 Magna Carta - a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede in 1215 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619444 2018-02-02 18:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619444 English Bill of Rights - is an act that the Parliament of England passed in 1689. The Bill creates separation of powers, limits the powers of the king and queen, enhances the democratic election and bolsters freedom of speech. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619555 2018-02-02 18:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619555 Bicameral - two branches or chambers. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619702 2018-02-02 18:27:15 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619702 Voltaire - French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher for his attacks on the established Catholic Church and Christianity. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619812 2018-02-02 18:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619812 Baron de Montesquieu - French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers . 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619936 2018-02-02 18:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227619936 Jean-Jacques Rousseau - French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland who believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society and ideas influenced the French Revolution. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227620132 2018-02-02 18:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227620132 Thomas Hobbes - English political philosopher, His greatest work is the Leviathan of 1651, and contains his defence of absolute sovereignty. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227620532 2018-02-02 18:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227620532 John Locke - Seventeenth century English philosopher, who argued against the belief that human beings are born with certain ideas already in their minds. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227620670 2018-02-02 18:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227620670 Confederation - an organization that consists of a number of parties united in an alliance. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227620773 2018-02-02 18:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227620773 Popular Sovereignty - part of the seven principles that the authority of a state and its government created the consent of its people. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227620913 2018-02-02 18:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227620913 Articles of Confederation - agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227621557 2018-02-02 18:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227621557 Ratification - Ratification is approval where the agent lacked authority to legally bind the principal. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227621756 2018-02-02 18:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227621756 Virginia Plan - known as the Large-State Plan that was proposed by Virginia for a bicameral legislative branch. The plan was drafted by James Madison to assemble the Constitutional Convention of 1787. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227621894 2018-02-02 18:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227621894 New Jersey Plan - known as the Small State Plan and was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227622003 2018-02-02 18:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227622003 Connecticut Compromise - known as Great Compromise of 1787 and was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227622190 2018-02-02 18:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227622190 Three-Fifths Compromise - population of slaves counted as three-fifths when apportioning Representatives, as Presidential electors and taxes. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227622525 2018-02-02 18:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227622525 Federalists - a person who supports a system of government in several states that unite under a central authority. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227622822 2018-02-02 18:33:45 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227622822 Anti- Federalists - a movement that opposed a stronger U.S. federal government, which opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227622939 2018-02-02 18:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227622939 Federalist Papers - The Federalist is 85 articles and essays written under the Publius by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. 300009479 https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227623034 2018-02-02 18:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/300009479/8ohzw2u9zpxe/wish/227623034