AP US Government and Politics, Unit 1: Foundations of American Democracy

John Locke

A philosopher who proposed natural rights to life, liberty, and property. Furthermore, he proposed the idea of a social contract based on the consent of the governed.

Thomas Hobbes

A philosopher who argued in Leviathan that humans are naturally selfish and require a strong sovereignty maintain order.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Montesquieu

James Madison

Tyranny of the Majority

Natural Rights

Social Contract

Popular Sovereignty

Limited Government

Republicanism

Declaration of Independence

Direct Democracy

Representative Democracy

Participatory Democracy

Pluralist Democracy

Elite Democracy

Decentralized Republic

Federalists

Anti-Federalists

Federalist No. 10

Federalist No. 39

Brutus No. 1

Articles of Confederation

Unicameral Legislation

Shays Rebellion

Constitution

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan

Connecticut’s Great Compromise

Bicameral Legislation

Three-Fifths Compromise

Electoral College

Amendment Process

Separation of Powers

Checks and Balances

Legislative Branch

Statute

Powers of Congress

Checks of the President

Executive Branch

Powers of the President

Checks of the President

Judicial Branch

Powers of the Judiciary

Checks of the Judicial

Impeachment

Marbury v. Madison

Federalist No. 51

Federalist No. 50

Federalism

Dual Federalism

Cooperative Federalism

Enumerated Powers

Implied Powers

Reserved Powers

Concurrent Powers

Necessary and Proper Clause (Elastic Clause)

Supremacy Clause

Commerce Clause

Full Faith and Credit Clause (Article IV)

Tenth Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment

McCulloch v. Maryland

United States v. Lopez

Brown v. Board of Education

Fiscal Federalism

Categorical Grants

Block Grants

Mandates