POD Unit 1 Week 1 Terms

What is government?

• The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies  

•  Everyone must follow the law and no one is above it

• The people are the ultimate source of government power.

• Each branch of government has power over the others.

What are Checks and balances?

• The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies  

•  Everyone must follow the law and no one is above it

• The people are the ultimate source of government power.

• Each branch of government has power over the others.

What is Popular sovereignty?

• The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies  

•  Everyone must follow the law and no one is above it

• The people are the ultimate source of government power.

• Each branch of government has power over the others.

What is the "rule of law"?

• The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies  

•  Everyone must follow the law and no one is above it

• The people are the ultimate source of government power.

• Each branch of government has power over the others.

What is politics?

• the process that determines the decisions made by government

• Document declaring US independence from Great Britain.

• Rule by the people

• Rights that belong to all humans from birth (life, liberty, happiness/property) 

What is democracy?

• the process that determines the decisions made by government

• Document declaring US independence from Great Britain.

• Rule by the people

• Rights that belong to all humans from birth (life, liberty, happiness/property) 

What are natural rights?

• the process that determines the decisions made by government

• Document declaring US independence from Great Britain.

• Rule by the people

• Rights that belong to all humans from birth (life, liberty, happiness/property) 

What is the Declaration of Independence

• the process that determines the decisions made by government

• Document declaring US independence from Great Britain.

• Rule by the people

• Rights that belong to all humans from birth (life, liberty, happiness/property) 

What is the social contract?

• Representation in Congress based on population, favored large states

•  Society agrees to be governed by its general will;

•  Division of government power among branches.

• Government power is restricted by law.

What is limited government?

• Representation in Congress based on population, favored large states

•  Society agrees to be governed by its general will;

•  Division of government power among branches.

• Government power is restricted by law.