WGU C963 Study Guide (Version 2)
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WGU C963 Study Guide (Version 2)
- Physical Security
Answer: social contract should protect the right to life (Thomas Hobbes)
- Quality of Life
Answer: People have rights from god that the government cannot take away. The social contract should protect life, liberty, and property. (John Locke)
- Freedom of Choice
Answer: You cannot be "forced to be free" and it should protect liberty (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
- State of Nature
Answer: How people may have lived before societies came into existence
- Natural Rights
Answer: "Basic human rights" we choose how we want to live
- Sovereignty
Answer: A person who has supreme power/authority
- Consensual political rule
Answer: People consent the government to make rules to follow-allowing the government to tell you what you can and can't do
- Areas of the Constitution influenced by the Enlightenment
Answer: John Locke's natural rights,
Rousseau's social contract in article 1 section 2 clause 1. The separation of powers is found in articles 1,2 and 3.
- Enlightenment influence on bill of rights
Answer: Society and government are created to protect and advance natural rights.
- Enlightenment influence on Deceleration of Independence
Answer: Fundamental natural rights are life, liberty, and property to which we are individually and equally entitled.
- Primary goals of the Articles of Confederation.
Answer: Limit the national govern- ment's power, which in return provides greater state sovereignty.
- Structure of Government under the Articles of Confederation
Answer: unicameral congress=1 chamber;confederation 2 / 3
each state had only one vote in Congress
The central government was weaker than the states
- Powers of government under Articles of Confederation
Answer: Borrow and coin money,
Declare war, Make treaties, Alliance with other nations, Regulate trade with Native Americans, and Settle disputes among other states.
- Weakness of Article of Confederations
Answer: No power to tact or interstate commerce or regulate trade. They could only request money from the state., No national army or navy., No Judicial or executive branches., Each state had one vote regardless of the size of congress; The articles could not be changed without a unanimous vote to do so.
- New Jersey Plan
Answer: Unicameral (one vote per state), State-based (Each state is equally represented), Small states are given the same power as the more significant states in the national legislature, Legislature gave all states one vote each regardless of the population size.
- Virginia Plan
Answer: Bicameral, population based,
larger states would have more power than small states and the national legislature, Legislature in what states receive representation based on their population.
- Major compromises of the constitutional convention
Answer: Bicameral Legislature=senate and house reps
Two senators regardless of size representation representation in the house would be based upon population elected members of the house=2 years in office appointed to the senate by each state political elite would serve a term of 6 years
- Three-Fifths Compromise
Answer: Satisfied the concerns of the South's concerns over counting their slave population by allowing 60% of the slave population to be counted for State representation and tax purposes.Five slaves=3votes
- Checks and Balances
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Answer: A system that allows each government branch to limit the other branches' power to prevent abuse of power.