AP GOV Unit 1 Test Review

Republic

Mixed Government

Monarchy, aristocracy, democracy

Constitution

Civic virtue

Natural rights

State of nature

Consent of the governed

Classical republicanism, social contract theory

Public v. private morality

Nation-state

Common law

Stare decisis, precedence

Habeas corpus

Rule of law

Magna Carta

Right to revolution

Suffrage

Constituent

Charter

Sovereignty

Writs of assistance

Long, train of abuses

Legislative supremacy

Checks and balances, separation of powers

Aristotle

Polybius

Cicero

Montesquieu

John Locke

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

George Mason

James Madison

Mixed Government

Classical republicanism

Social contract theory

Reformation

Enlightenment

British government’s evolution

Charters

European religious violence

Declaration of Independence

State Constitutions

Magna Carta

Habeas Corpus Act

British policy inre the colonies

Capitalism

Rights of Englishmen

Stability of government

Promoting the common good

Protecting individual rights

“Factions”

Promote popular sovereignty

The American experience from beginning of colonies to 1787