Exam 6 Flashcards
(30 cards)
who had extraordinary power of invention and persuasion?
James Madison
who was the astonishing physician who tried to keep the continental army healthy and wrote movingly and ferociously on the evils of slavery?
Benjamin Rush
who praised the settlement of 1689: restoration of the ancient constitution?
Edmund Burke
who adhered to the other camp: rulers serve at the people’s pleasure?
John Locke
who wrote the Rights of British North America?
Thomas Jefferson
what Algeron Sidney ideas are in the Declaration of Independence?
“liberty of self-governing citizens”
what are the sources of the declaration?
- petition of right
- declaration and bill or rights
- Sidney’s discourses
- Locke’s two treatises
- Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws
who made the distinction between the liberal concern with individual freedom from government oppression and the republican concern for the collective freedom that self-governing citizens possessed?
Benjamin Constant
who was John Madison’s tutor at Princeton?
John Witherspoon
who saw the British Empire as a confederation of self-governing communities?
jefferson
where were colonists rights a mere leasehold?
Proprietary colonies
what is an allodial landowner?
self-governing freeholders
who are allodial landowners?
americans
what encapsulates the political identity that american acquire in the course of growing up, and that new citizens acquire when they are naturalized?
Declaration of Independence
from where did the Declaration have its precursor?
VA declaration
articles of confederation
- common foreign and defense policy
- perpetual union
- provisions and omissions
- scarcity of bullion
- shay’s rebellion
double sovereignty
citizens were directly acted on by two separate but coordinate authorities under arrangements designed to ensure that neither was simply the agent of the other and that citizens never found themselves facing contradictory demands from the two authorities to which they owed allegiance
anti federalists
non-interventionist decentralizes favoring weak executives
who is the father of the constitution?
James Madison
who added “we the people of the united states”?
governor morris
what was the balanced republic cicero defended?
aristocratic or oligarchical state, in which the power of the upper classes was checked by a popular veto on legislation
faction
stumbling block
how is security against factionalism provided?
by an extensive republic
what are the differences between a popular republic and a pure democracy?
- representative government
- the fastidiousness of George Washington
- need for a system of filtration
