Homework answers / question archive / according the John Locke, the required basis for government; the Declaration of Independence reflects Locke's view that governments derive their authority from the consent of the governed a nation's basic law; it creates political institutions, assigns or divides powers in government, and often provides certain guarantees to citizens; constitutions can be either written or unwritten the document approved by representatives of the British North American colonies in 1776 that stated their grievances against the British monarch and declared their independence a constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1978 and sent to the state legislatures for ratification, stating that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex

according the John Locke, the required basis for government; the Declaration of Independence reflects Locke's view that governments derive their authority from the consent of the governed a nation's basic law; it creates political institutions, assigns or divides powers in government, and often provides certain guarantees to citizens; constitutions can be either written or unwritten the document approved by representatives of the British North American colonies in 1776 that stated their grievances against the British monarch and declared their independence a constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1978 and sent to the state legislatures for ratification, stating that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex

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1. according the John Locke, the required basis for government; the Declaration of Independence reflects Locke's view that governments derive their authority from the consent of the governed
2. a nation's basic law; it creates political institutions, assigns or divides powers in government, and often provides certain guarantees to citizens; constitutions can be either written or unwritten
3. the document approved by representatives of the British North American colonies in 1776 that stated their grievances against the British monarch and declared their independence
4. a constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1978 and sent to the state legislatures for ratification, stating that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Despite substantial public support and an extended deadline for ratification, the amendment failed to acquire the necessary support from three-fourths of the state legislatures (or ratifying conventions)
5. interest groups arising from the unequal distribution of property or wealth that James Madison attacked in Federalist No. 10; today's parties or interest groups are what Madison had in mind when he warned of the instability in government caused by factions
6. supporters of the ratification of the newly-written U.S. Constitution at the time that states were contemplating its ratification; also, the name of the first political party that developed in the United States during the 1790s
7. a collection of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison under the pen name "Publius" to defend the Constitution in detail; collectively, these papers are second only to the U.S. Constitution in characterizing the framers' intent
8. a major informal way in which the Constitution is changed by the courts as they balance citizens' rights against those of the government
9. the power of the courts to determine whether acts of Congress, and by implication the executive branch, are in accord with the U.S. Constitution; judicial review was established by John Marshall and his associates in Marbury v. Madison (1803)
10. the idea that certain things are out of bounds for government because of the natural rights of citizens; limited government was central to John Locke's philosophy in the seventeenth century, and it contrasted sharply with the prevailing view of the divine rights of monarchs