Bellwork #10 2023.

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Life liberty property -- idea by John Locke

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Natural Rights

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In the Articles of Confederation, where was most of the government power placed?

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The States

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An Agreement to create a government and consent to its laws. Idea by Thomas Hobbes.

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Social Contract

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Living with no rules or laws

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State of Nature

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Citizens who put the common welfare above their own selfish interests.

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Civic Virtue

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a system that allows each branch of government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power.

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Checks and Balances

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What was not a problem of the Articles of Confederation? Options: No national court, No chief executive, No way Congress can tax its citizens directly, No way to pass laws

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No way to pass laws

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Sharing of power within our government so no one branch has more power than the other branch. Dividing the government into three branches.

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Separation of Powers

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Parliament

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Law making body of England

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Document stating why the colonists were breaking away from England and starting a new nation.

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Declaration Of Independence