Complete guide to PSC financial and business skills exam - Distinction achieved (ULaw)
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Complete guide to PSC financial and
business skills exam - Distinction
achieved (ULaw)Complete guide to PSC financial and
business skills exam - Distinction
achieved (ULaw)Complete guide to PSC financial and
business skills exam - Distinction
achieved (ULaw)Complete guide to PSC financial and...
Complete guide to PSC financial and
business skills exam - Distinction
achieved (ULaw)
What is the social contract - answer-People gave away power to rule & some rights, but get back
protection from the government
Montesquieu: How did he influence the "Founding Fathers" - answer-Separation of Powers:
three branches
Checks and Balances
How is a Constitutional government strengthened by the principle of Separation of powers -
answer-All power is split between three branches so no one person or group can have all the
power.
What are four concepts found in the Magna Carta that influenced the Founding Fathers -
answer-Limited government - ALSO MEANS PEOPLE HAVE MORE POWER
Trial by jury
,Advisors lead to Parliament
Rule of Law
How did the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights influence America? - answer-They both
inspired the founders to increase individual liberties.
List three rights that are found in the English Bill of Rights that are found in the US Bill of Rights:
- answer-Freedom of Speech
No cruel and unusual punishment
No taxes w/o consent
What are the two ways to become a natural born citizen? - answer-Law of Soil - born on US soil,
Law of Blood - born to US citizens abroad
What can Naturalized Citizens expect when the come to the U.S.? - answer-The can expect an
equal opportunity to succeed
John Locke: What ideas is he known for - answer-The Social Contract - According to John Locke
the US Constitution is a Social Contract
Natural Laws / Rights: Government protects "life, liberty, and property."
Influenced the Declaration of Independence
John Locke's Natural rights expressed in the Declaration of Independence - answer-"Endowed
by their creator with certain inalienable rights" and "Life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
and
Name three concepts in the Mayflower Compact that influenced the Founding Fathers: -
answer-Self-government - WANTED TO START THEIR OWN GOV'T
The rule of law
Social Contract
,What did Thomas Paine's Common Sense influence the Founding Fathers to do - answer-
"Common Sense" to declare independence from Great Britain. Influenced Declaration of
Independence
WANTED TO START THEIR OWN GOV'T
How did the Mayflower Compact and Common Sense influence the Founders? - answer-The
inspired them to start their own gov't
How did King George III and Parliament push the American colonists towards Independence and
List four things that the British did that made the Colonists angry - answer-Stamp Act
(newspapers and playing cards)
Townshend Act (glass, lead, paints, paper, tea all had to be imported from England)
Quartering Act (forced to house soldiers)
Tea Act (only buy British Tea)
No taxation w/o representation
How did the colonists react to King George III increasing taxes on the colonists - answer-They
protested and eventually declared independence
Who was the "Grievances" of the Declaration of Independence addressed to - answer-King
George III
What rights are being protected in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and from
whom are they being protected - answer-All people are equal and Life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness. They are being protected from the government
What does the Declaration of Independence say about a gov't that doesn't protect Natural
Rights? - answer-The gov't can be changed if that gov't doesn't protect Nat. Rights
, Which Enlightenment philosopher influenced Jefferson in the "Natural Rights" section of the
Declaration of Independence - answer-John Locke
How is the idea of popular sovereignty stated in the Declaration of Independence - answer-
"Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."
When should a people change the gov't? - answer-"That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government"
What are some of the events and the name of the period immediately following the
Revolutionary War - answer-Shays' Rebellion, Northwest Ordinance, Articles of Confederation
Period
List three weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation: - answer-One branch: no judicial
(national court or Supreme Court) or executive branch (President)
No power to tax, regulate trade or enforce lawsevery state had it's own money;
Too rigid: 9 out 13 states to pass laws, 13 out of 13 to pass amendments
Under the Article of Confederation, what was an effect of having no judiciary? - answer-The
gov't couldn't solve disputes between the states
Under the Articles of Confederation, what was the effect of having no executive branch
(president)? - answer-The gov't couldn't enforce its own laws
What role did debt play in the Revolutionary period - answer-British give taxes to pay for French
& Indian War which leads to colonial protests and then the Declaration of Independence;
Articles of Confederation couldn't collect taxes to pay Revolutionary War debt);
What was the effect of the colonial policy of raising revenue? - answer-Raising revenue through
taxes to pay debt cause the colonists to declare independence
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