Mastery Project
Essential Questions
1. The purpose of government is to protect the rights of the American people, to keep them safe, and to provide the opportunity of success to each and every citizen to seeks it out.
2. The founding fathers wanted the government to bring citizens together and have them all participate in the government.
3. Yes, and even more so, because women and people of color are now allowed to vote and run for office, rights they didn't have when the country was still young.
4. The Constitution holds more power than the government does. It keeps the government in check.
5. Most countries in the 18th century were ruled by monarchies, aristocracies, and oligarchies who ruled with the best interest of the nobility in mind, not the middle class and the rest of the people who could not hold power.
6. Montesquieu's proposition of separation didn't include the idea of political factions but Madison argued that pitting the powers against each other would keep one side from gaining total power.
7. Democratic Theory means that each citizen gets a vote do decide on individual issues. Rupublicanism allows each citizen to vote for a representitive who then takes action in the government, this is the system we have today. Pluralist Theory allows the number of voters
equals a corresponding number of representatives on a floor as a percent of population, where the party with the most representatives leads policy making. Majoritarianism means that a party must have a majority over the others to lead. Elitist theory is essentially that the very elite in a society make the rules, this would be like the top 1% of Americans ruling, making the country like an aristocracy.
8. Anti-federalists felt as though this new government was too similar to King George's monarchy.
9. It strengthened the idea of separation of power because eache branch was able to check the other branches while maintaing balance.
10. New Federalism entails that state and local governments are subsumed by the federal. Many powers and responsibilities typically reserved for states are taken over by the federal government in devolution.
11. The federal government should have oversight- if anything in the state or local issues conflicts with the constitution, specifically the Bill of Rights, then it shall have the power to intervene to rectify the problem in order to ensure citizens’ rights are respected irrespective to location.
1. The purpose of government is to protect the rights of the American people, to keep them safe, and to provide the opportunity of success to each and every citizen to seeks it out.
2. The founding fathers wanted the government to bring citizens together and have them all participate in the government.
3. Yes, and even more so, because women and people of color are now allowed to vote and run for office, rights they didn't have when the country was still young.
4. The Constitution holds more power than the government does. It keeps the government in check.
5. Most countries in the 18th century were ruled by monarchies, aristocracies, and oligarchies who ruled with the best interest of the nobility in mind, not the middle class and the rest of the people who could not hold power.
6. Montesquieu's proposition of separation didn't include the idea of political factions but Madison argued that pitting the powers against each other would keep one side from gaining total power.
7. Democratic Theory means that each citizen gets a vote do decide on individual issues. Rupublicanism allows each citizen to vote for a representitive who then takes action in the government, this is the system we have today. Pluralist Theory allows the number of voters
equals a corresponding number of representatives on a floor as a percent of population, where the party with the most representatives leads policy making. Majoritarianism means that a party must have a majority over the others to lead. Elitist theory is essentially that the very elite in a society make the rules, this would be like the top 1% of Americans ruling, making the country like an aristocracy.
8. Anti-federalists felt as though this new government was too similar to King George's monarchy.
9. It strengthened the idea of separation of power because eache branch was able to check the other branches while maintaing balance.
10. New Federalism entails that state and local governments are subsumed by the federal. Many powers and responsibilities typically reserved for states are taken over by the federal government in devolution.
11. The federal government should have oversight- if anything in the state or local issues conflicts with the constitution, specifically the Bill of Rights, then it shall have the power to intervene to rectify the problem in order to ensure citizens’ rights are respected irrespective to location.