WGU C181 STUDY GUIDE Questions and answers, 100% Accurate. VERIFIED 2024 | 28 Pages

What is sovereignty? - -SOVEREIGNTY - Each national government has the right to govern its people as it wishes, without interference from other nations. In America, we believe the PEOPLE collectively have ALL POWER to govern this Country, & to authorize the legitimate use of FORCE by voting for their elected LEADERS, who make laws to protect the peoples' FREEDOM and RIGHTS. ['Popular' = the PEOPLE. Also relates to Republic, Republicanism.] How is Sovereignty threatened in the globalized world? - -If the majority of nations thinks a country is being ruled unethically or crimes on its citizens are happening, world sanctions can be ordered. IE... Libya and Moammar Gadhafi. What are the fundamental values of American democracy? How are these values shown in the two dilemmas of government? - -Order, freedom and equality. Freedom vs. Order- sometimes, order is needed to have freedoms. USSR, Germany. Freedom vs. Equality- sometimes, equality is a problem and hurts freedom. Equal pay, School busing. Fundamental Value 1: Equality - -The foundation of the triangle - all men are created equal Fundamental Value 2: Freedom - -Unalienable Rights - rights that can not be taken from you. "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". "An absence of constraints" - in America, however, we restrict freedom so that we do not infringe on other people's rights. Fundamental Value 3: Order - -TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed (ie. THE PEOPLE)