Tyranny - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PSCI 210 Midterm 1 Questions with Correct Answers Classical Liberalism - Answer-A term given to the philosophy of John Locke and other 17th and 18th century advocates of the protection of individual rights and liberties by limiting government power State of Nature (Hobbes) - Answer-In order for people to accept entering civil society and the social, must convince them to trade liberties for security. Needed government to protect one's rights, such as life and property Republicanism - Ans...

What were the framers concerned with? - ANSWER Executive power, they did not want to create another king; feared tyranny What does it mean by The framers feared the idea of "popular leaders" - ANSWER If the executive has power, then they could use their popularity forcorrupt reasons (tyranny). Four Institutional Devices: - ANSWER Electoral College Length of Office Constitutional Power Public Opinion Electoral College - ANSWER The framers worried that "the dynamics of mass politics wou...

PLATO EDMENTUM US GOVERNMENT END OF SEMESTER EXAM 2024/2025 | UPDATED. Under which type of government would state or provincial governments have the most sovereignty? A. parliamentary B. confederal C. federal D. totalitarian E. dictatorship B. confederal Imagine you are preparing a speech on social contract theory for your government class. As part of your speech, you need to focus on the idea that people have the authority to overthrow a government that has become tyrannical. Which Enl...

Con law Practice Exam Questions with Answers Constitutionalism - Answer- System that prefers a high law to someone other from of domination/structure (i.e. the army that is dominant and physically controls you/ the thing, a title that is passed down from generation to generation, a monarchy) We, as the people, subscribe to it and ratify it Why do we subscribe to constitutionalism? - Answer- Prevents tyranny Promotes uniformity → equal application of the law to all people in all ...

7th Grade Civics EOC Review 2024 Questions and Answers Baron De Montesquieu - Correct Answer ️️ -View "separation of power" Founding Fathers used his views when writing the Constitution. He described the separation of political power among a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary John Locke - Correct Answer ️️ -He wrote that government is morally obligated to serve people, namely by protecting their natural rights of life, liberty, and property. Think-Declaration of Indepen...

Listening Vocabulary - Answer- Consist of the words, you understand when listening to people speak. Speaking Vocabulary - Answer- Consist of the words you use when you talk. * smaller than listening vocabulary * Writing Vocabulary - Answer- Consist of words you use when you write. Sight (Reading) Vocabulary - Answer- Consists of the words you can recognize and correctly pronounce. Meaning (Reading) Vocabulary - Answer- Consist of the words, you understand when reading silently. ...

PLA 3108 Test 1 Ch 1,4 Questions & Answers 2024/2025 common law heritage - ANSWERSall case law that is made by judges in the absence of statutes civil law - ANSWERSlaw handed down by the Romans and based on one elaborate document or code, rather than a combo of laws Jurisprudence Constante - ANSWERSin civil law, judges are not bound by prior decisions; they look at the code first to find the rule; in applying the code, judges rely primarily on scholarly articles and books written by p...

GOVT 2305 Exam One Review Government 2305 Collin College Question and answers already passed GOVT 2305 Exam One Review What did Madison/Montesquieu write was the very definition of tyranny? - correct answer The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective. Madision believed that without (blank) and (blank) a free government can never in practice be truly maintained...

Civics EOC Practice Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Rule of Law - Correct Answer ️️ -No one is above the law. Prevents tyranny and foundation of liberty. Consitution= limited government Civil Law - Correct Answer ️️ -Groups of laws that refer to disputes among people or organizations Criminal Law - Correct Answer ️️ -Groups of Laws that define what acts/activities are crimes and describes how an accused person should be tried in court and their punishment Constitutional...

Date the Declaration of Independence was signed - July 4, 1776 What was the goal of the framers of the Declaration of Independence? - Declared new nations of the US ought to be free and independent states and that their political connection with GB ought to be totally dissolved. What happened at the end of the Revolutionary War? - Conclusion of the war in 1783, GB recognized the US as a free and independent states What is the connection between the Declaration of Independence and the Const...