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Comprehensive Study Guide & Key
Concepts
Sovereignty - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----ultimate political power
legitimacy - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----ruling by a sanction rather than stark
necessity
Founding - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----a conscious, deliberate act of creating a
system of government that benefits the people
Good Society - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----reasonably stable and prosperous
society without an oppressive tyranny
,Human Predicament Cycle - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----tyranny to revolution to
anarchy to competing groups to tyranny
Virtue, Freedom, and Welfare - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----must balance these
three things in a government, different groups of thinkers have different ideas on
how to do it
"Our Divided Political Heart" - E.J Dionne - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Core
Values of American Society
Woodard - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Individual vs community
Justice Chapter 1 - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----doing the right thing
John Calvin - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----greatly influenced Puritan belief, taught
that salvation came through grace, predestination
Puritans - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----wanted to reform Church of England,
shaped early America's character
The Christian Calling - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----people should pursue a
"calling" where they must work hard, be wise
, Moral Self-Governance - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----People should live a
righteous life on their own
God's Elect - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----God has already chosen those who will
be saved, elect should build a holy community
Corporate Community - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----colonial settlements with
economic or financial purposes
Covenant Community - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----colonial settlements based on
religious or moral values
City upon a Hill - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----a society governed by civil liberty
that would be an example to the world
Civil Liberty - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Men are free to do what is good, just,
and honest
Natural Liberty - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Men are free to do what they please,
no regard for morals
Mayflower Compact - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Established type of society that
early Americans wanted
Comprehensive Study Guide & Key
Concepts
Sovereignty - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----ultimate political power
legitimacy - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----ruling by a sanction rather than stark
necessity
Founding - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----a conscious, deliberate act of creating a
system of government that benefits the people
Good Society - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----reasonably stable and prosperous
society without an oppressive tyranny
,Human Predicament Cycle - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----tyranny to revolution to
anarchy to competing groups to tyranny
Virtue, Freedom, and Welfare - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----must balance these
three things in a government, different groups of thinkers have different ideas on
how to do it
"Our Divided Political Heart" - E.J Dionne - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Core
Values of American Society
Woodard - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Individual vs community
Justice Chapter 1 - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----doing the right thing
John Calvin - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----greatly influenced Puritan belief, taught
that salvation came through grace, predestination
Puritans - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----wanted to reform Church of England,
shaped early America's character
The Christian Calling - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----people should pursue a
"calling" where they must work hard, be wise
, Moral Self-Governance - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----People should live a
righteous life on their own
God's Elect - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----God has already chosen those who will
be saved, elect should build a holy community
Corporate Community - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----colonial settlements with
economic or financial purposes
Covenant Community - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----colonial settlements based on
religious or moral values
City upon a Hill - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----a society governed by civil liberty
that would be an example to the world
Civil Liberty - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Men are free to do what is good, just,
and honest
Natural Liberty - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Men are free to do what they please,
no regard for morals
Mayflower Compact - ---✔✔✔ANSWER----Established type of society that
early Americans wanted
