Your Path to Success: POSC 1010 Midterm Study Guide
John Locke's Framework of the Government - correct answer ✔✔"Constitutional" = limited government;
limited power;
purpose of government = to protect the rights of individuals
Constitutional Republican Democracy - correct answer ✔✔John Locke:
-Limited Power
-Purpose of Government = protection of rights of individuals
-Constitutional = "limited government"
-Democracy = "ruled by the people"
Declaration of Independence - correct answer ✔✔Ideas of DOI:
-governmental purpose = securing the rights of the people (per John Locke)
-power is derived from consent of the governed
-all men are created equal
-rights are inherent and "unalienable"
-right/duty of people to overthrow repressive government
The Articles of Confederation (1777) - the original constitution. - correct answer ✔✔-confederation (not
a union)
-nat'l government did not have power to (1). levy taxes (2)raise an army (state militias)
-one branch of government (congress) (each state got one vote; 9/13 majority
Problems with the Articles of Confederation - correct answer ✔✔-funding war effort
-competing. coinage btwn. states
-tariffs on goods from other states
-inability to maintain national order (Shay's Rebellion)
John Locke's Framework of the Government - correct answer ✔✔"Constitutional" = limited government;
limited power;
purpose of government = to protect the rights of individuals
Constitutional Republican Democracy - correct answer ✔✔John Locke:
-Limited Power
-Purpose of Government = protection of rights of individuals
-Constitutional = "limited government"
-Democracy = "ruled by the people"
Declaration of Independence - correct answer ✔✔Ideas of DOI:
-governmental purpose = securing the rights of the people (per John Locke)
-power is derived from consent of the governed
-all men are created equal
-rights are inherent and "unalienable"
-right/duty of people to overthrow repressive government
The Articles of Confederation (1777) - the original constitution. - correct answer ✔✔-confederation (not
a union)
-nat'l government did not have power to (1). levy taxes (2)raise an army (state militias)
-one branch of government (congress) (each state got one vote; 9/13 majority
Problems with the Articles of Confederation - correct answer ✔✔-funding war effort
-competing. coinage btwn. states
-tariffs on goods from other states
-inability to maintain national order (Shay's Rebellion)
