Challenging power/History of democracy

Question 1

What is a revolution?

Answer 1

A forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system by a group holding a significant amount of popular support

Question 2

What is a coup?

Answer 2

A sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government by a small group lacking popular support

Question 3

Why do overthrows often happen?

Answer 3

When a government is lacking legitimacy

Question 4

What is a strike?

Answer 4

A boycott induced to stop production until grievances are met

Question 5

Who normally conducts strikes?

Answer 5

Trade unions

Question 6

What is a dissident?

Answer 6

A person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state

Question 7

What is Sedition?

Answer 7

A speech/behaviour or organisation that encourages revolution

Question 8

A person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state is known as a?

Answer 8

Dissident

Question 9

What is a speech/behaviour or organisation that encourages revolution known as?

Answer 9

Sedition

Question 10

Where did the earliest notions of democracy start?

Answer 10

Athens

Question 11

What is the Ecclesia?

Answer 11

An assembly of politicians

Question 12

Who is Cleisthenes?

Answer 12

An intelligent aristocrat whom had the idea of having a popularly elected leader of Athens

Question 13

Who had the idea of democracy?

Answer 13

Cleisthenes

Question 14

Who was Hippias?

Answer 14

A reigning tyrant

Question 15

What were the Phylae?

Answer 15

The four warring clans of Athens and Attica who were divided up into 10 smaller groups

Question 16

The four warring clans of Athens and Attica who were divided up into 10 smaller groups were known as

Answer 16

Phylae

Question 17

How many times did the Ecceslia meet annually?

Answer 17

40 times

Question 18

A council of how many men were elected into the Phylae every year?

Answer 18

50 men

Question 19

What were the main principles that democracy is based on?

Answer 19

Government is constituted from population, right to vote, rotation of positions of power

Question 20

When was the Magna carta or “Great charter signed?”

Answer 20

1215

Question 21

What was the Magna carta?

Answer 21

It set the boundaries that the feudal monarch needed to follow

Question 22

When did King James come to power?

Answer 22

1603

Question 23

What did King James notably do?

Answer 23

Begin English parliament

Question 24

What started friction between the monarch and parliament?

Answer 24

The belief that the monarch had the divine right over anyone else

Question 25

What was the petition of right?

Answer 25

It was made by parliament and declared that all taxes not voted on by parliament were illegal

Question 26

When was the Petition of right signed?

Answer 26

1628

Question 27

What caused the Petition of right to occur?

Answer 27

King Charles wanting to tax people so he could fund going to war with France

Question 28

As a result of the Petition of right Charles?

Answer 28

Dissolved the parliament

Question 29

As a result of the dissolution of the English parliament what would place in 1642?

Answer 29

The English civil war

Question 30

How long was the English civil war?

Answer 30

7 years

Question 31

When was the English civil war?

Answer 31

1642

Question 32

How did the English civil war end?

Answer 32

King Charles being beheaded

Question 33

Who declared England a commonwealth?

Answer 33

Oliver Cromwell

Question 34

Who was Oliver Cromwell?

Answer 34

The man who declared England a commonwealth

Question 35

An independent state or community, especially a democratic republic is an?

Answer 35

Commonwealth

Question 36

A Commonwealth is?

Answer 36

An independent state or community, especially a democratic republic

Question 37

Did the original English commonwealth last long?

Answer 37

No

Question 38

When did Oliver Cromwell die?

Answer 38

1658

Question 39

Who took to the throne after the death of Cromwell?

Answer 39

King Charles son

Question 40

What conditions did Charles son return on?

Answer 40

The compulsory signing of the petition of right along with the virtue to meet with parliament every three years

Question 41

What made the English republic significant in the development of democracy?

Answer 41

It shifted away from sovereignty of the monarch to popular sovereignty

Question 42

What was the enlightenment?

Answer 42

When traditional ways of thinking was replaced with new more "progressive ideals"

Question 43

When did the enlightenment span from?

Answer 43

1660-1789

Question 44

What is social contract?

Answer 44

If you follow the laws of state, you will social benefits

Question 45

Who is the "father" of the social contract theory?

Answer 45

Thomas Hobbes

Question 46

Who was Thomas Hobbes?

Answer 46

The "father" of the social contract theory

Question 47

What was Thomas Hobbes belief on the "state of nature?"

Answer 47

Things would become so unbearable without order that a civil society would form

Question 48

Who was John Locke?

Answer 48

An English philosopher who had beliefs in the idea of social contract

Question 49

Who Was Baron de Montesquieu?

Answer 49

An French political philosopher

Question 50

What was Baron de Montesquieu biggest contribution to politics?

Answer 50

The idea of the separation of powers

Question 51

When were Australian women given the vote?

Answer 51

1902