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| The process by which we choose government officials and make decisions about public policy |
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| The body (or bodies) charged with making official policies for citizens |
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| Form of government in which decisions about public policy extend to the entire citizenry. |
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| Representative government |
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| Form of government in which popular decision making is restricted to electing or appointing public officials who make public policy |
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| a political and religious doctrine of royal absolutism. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God |
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| Developed the "social contract theory," which is the view that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live. Also know as the father of liberalism |
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| Wrote the "Leviathan," expanding on John Locke's theory of social contracts. Supporting the view that all legitimate political power must be "representative" and based on the consent of the people |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| A statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. |
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| An armed uprising, led by the farmer Daniel Shay's, in central and western Massachusetts (mainly Springfield) from 1786 to 1787. The rebellion is named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| An article that reconized the colonies as sovereign (independent) units, which limited the ability of the centeral government to respond collectively. Lacked a common national currency, control of interstate commerce, and ability to collect taxes. |
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| bi-cameral legislature, in which states would have proportional representation. |
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| unicameral legislature in which each states would have equal representation. |
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| bicameral legislature in which seats in the lower chamber were based on population and the upper chamber would have an equal vote. |
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