Origins and Foundations EBAS

• Separation of powers

• Federalism

• Checks and balances

• Popular Sovereignty

Source 2.1

• Limited Government

• Federalism

• Representative Democracy

• Direct Democracy

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) bans asbestos due to health concerns.

• Environmental groups protest commercial development in protected wetland areas.

• Green party candidate loses election due to concerns about carbon emissions tax.

• Governor’s tourism initiative paused after multiple lawsuits filed.

• Presidential pardons and executive privilege

• The ability of a citizen to sue the government for damages in a civil case

• The constitution is the highest law in the land, nothing else can contradict it

• The Senate has to approve Supreme Court appointments made by the President

• Majority Rule

• Limited Government

• Consent of the Governed

• Checks and Balances

• A lack of separation of powers

• A weak central government

• No National currency

• No National army

• Dictatorship

• Parliamentary

• Presidential

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Authoritarianism

• Confederacy

• Oligarchy

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

• Totalitarianism

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Confederacy

• Totalitarianism

Group 11

Source 11.1

Source 11.2

Source 11.3

Source 11.4

Source 11.5

• Source A

• Source B

• Source C

• Source D

• Source C does not believe the protest is an acceptable means to initiate change.

• Source C believes people have a right to self-rule, not the government.

• Source B believes that protest is an acceptable means to initiate change.

• Source B and Source C do not contradict each other.

• Government exists to secure the rights of the people.

• China supports a pro-democracy country.

• The Statue of Liberty is the beacon of freedom in China.

• Peaceful protest is the vehicle to initiate change in China.

• Both sources support the idea of consent of the governed.

• Both sources support the idea of inalienable rights.

• Both sources support the idea that government needs to be limited.

• Both sources support the concept of authoritarian rule.

• “The framers of the Constitution acknowledged the inalienable rights of man”

• “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men”

• “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it”

• “Certain universal rights cannot be taken away from man”