Details Title: american heritage Description: american heritage terms Total Flash Cards: 46 Created: 06/25/2009 18:37:29		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Political Studies Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term sovereignty Definition ultimate political power Term what is brown vs. board of education an example of? Definition sovereignty, it showed that gov. has more power than states Term what did president washington say about goverment? Definition it is force, it has to be there to control us Term what did Lord Acton say about power/government? Definition power corrupts Term human predicament Definition tyranny to revolution to anarchy to competing groups to tyranny again Term despot Definition a ruler excercising absolute power Term revolution Definition removing tyranny from power Term anarchy Definition one person maintains absolute power Term competing groups Definition groups taht fight for supremem power and control Term political legitimacy Definition usually accomplished by invoking the approval of gods Term divine right of kings Definition the idea that god pre destined some people to be rulers Term theocracy Definition rule by belief of religion Term aritocracy Definition rule by ancestors of by family line Term greek freedom Definition privilege of taking part in the political process Term arete Definition greek term for human virtue. striving for excellence Term plato's four cardinal virtues Definition wisdom, courage, temperance, justice Term four alternatives of goverment Definition autocracy, classical republicansim, libertarianism, liberalism Term autocracy Definition people are like children, they need to be forced by a powerful ruler Term classical repbulicanism Definition humans are not corrupt but they can turn out to be corruptible Term libertarianism Definition liberty, goverment should rule less and give more freedoms Term liberalism Definition warmest view of human nature. restrictions lead to poisoning of good people. goverment should also be focused on economics. Term goverment and economy? Definition economy, political economy. Term seven things found in a founders toolbox Definition structure, participation, law, customs and traditions, moral sense, founding myths, leadership Term social compact Definition before gov. people would abide by set rules, common agreement on what was right and wrong. Term state of nature Definition time period when there was no gov. Term corporate communities Definition communities that were built soley for money making Term example of a corporate community Definition jamestown, virginia Term difference of the view of "land" native americans vs. europeans Definition native americans saw it as a sacred thing while europeans saw it as property they could sell Term Who gave the idea of starting a tobacco plantation? Definition John Rolfe Term pilgrims Definition small group of christian separatists seeking to get away from the church of england Term covenant coummnities Definition settlements based on religious or moral values Term example of a covenant community Definition Brownist pilgrims in plymouth Term difference between jamestown and the brownist pilgrims of plymouth Definition one cam for money while the other came for religious reasons Term covenant and corporate coummunities Definition community with both reasons. settled by puritans in mass. bay Term leader of corporate commnity Definition john smith Term leader of covenant commnity Definition will bradford Term leader of covenant and corporate mixed coummnities Definition john winthrop Term 3 basic puritan beliefs Definition god's elect, christian calling, moral self goverance Term god's elect Definition predestination of people Term the christian calling Definition you had a job you were destined to do as part of the commnity. i.e. masonry Term moral self goverance Definition each man for responsible for his own actions. they all believe in universal rights and wrongs Term who quoted "a city upon a hill" Definition john winthrop, he was trying to quote the new testament Term natural liberty Definition men are free to do w/e they wanted Term civil liberty Definition men are free do to do w/e they wanted as long they do which is good, just, and honest Term natural vs. civil liberty Definition you can do anything you want vs. as long as it is good Term Good society Definition order, properity, culture, peace, and citizens in charge of themselves