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