DIEGO MAGALLON

UNITARY GOVERNMENT

• The definition of a unitary government or unitary state is a system of political organization with a central supreme government which holds the authority over and makes the decisions for subordinate local governments. An example of a unitary government is the United Kingdom overseeing Scotland

FEDERALISM

• The federal principle or system of government

CON-FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

• A confederal government is a form of government in which sovereign states delegate power to a centralized government. ... The powers of the central government are typically limited to defense and foreign commerce

DEMOCRACY

• a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representative

DICTATORSHIP

• A country governed by a dictator

AUTOCRACY

• a system of government by one person with absolute power.

OLIGARCHY

• a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution

COMPROMISE

• an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions

LIMITED GOVERNMENT

• A limited government is a political system where the legalized force is restricted through delegated and enumerated powers. The United States Constitution, for example, was designed to limit government's role to its core functions: to preserve individual liberty and protect private property

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT

• An electoral system where citizens vote to elect people to represent their interests and concerns. Those elected meet to debate and make laws on behalf of the whole community or society, instead of the people voting directly on laws and other debates

MAGNA CARTA

• a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges

ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS

• The 1689 English Bill of Rights was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1689 that declared the rights and liberties of the people and settling the succession in William III and Mary II following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when James was deposed

BICAMERAL

• Having 2 branches or chambers

VOLTAIRE

• He was a leading figure of the Enlightenment, and frequently came into conflict with the Establishment as a result of his radical views and satirical writings.

BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

• French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial powers (1689-1755) Charles Louis de Secondat, Montesquieu

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

• a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century

THOMAS HOBBES

• 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

JOHN LOCKE

• A seventeenth-century English philosopher. Locke argued against the belief that human beings are born with certain ideas already in their minds. He claimed that, on the contrary, the mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) until experience begins to “write” on it

CONFEDERATION

• an organization that consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league

POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

• Popular sovereignty or the sovereignty of the people's rule, is the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

• the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789

RATIFICATION

• the action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid. "ratification of the treaty raised problems in several

VIRGINIA PLAN

• The Virginia Plan (also known as the Randolph Plan, after its sponsor, or the Large-State Plan) was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. The plan was drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787

NEW JERSEY PLAN

• The New Jersey Plan (also known as the Small State Plan or the Paterson Plan) was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787

CONNECTICUT COMPROMISE

• The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or The Sherman Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.

THREE-FIFTHS COMPROMISE

• The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise reached between delegates from southern states and those from northern states during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention

FEDERALIST

• a person who advocates or supports a system of government in which several states unite under a central authority

ANTI-FERDERALIST

• Anti-Federalism refers to a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 Constitution. The previous constitution, called the Articles of Confederation, gave state governments more authority

FEDERALIST PAPERS

• The Federalist (later known as The Federalist Papers) is a collection of 85 articles and essays written (under the pseudonym Publius) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution.