AP GOV REQUIRED DOCUMENTS MASTER 100% CORRECT REVIEW
Declaration of Independence - ANS--Social contract theory- require consent of the governed
-People can abolish destructive government
-Telling British people they've already told the grievances- ignored colonist- in war=enemies, in
peace=friends
ARGUMENTS:
unalienable rights- life, liberty, property
establish gov to protect rights
gov gets power from the people
right/ duty to overthrow
(Last 2= Social Contract Theory)
GRIEVANCES:
taxation w/o representation
quartering troops
trial w/o jury
dissolving colonists' representative governing bodies
controlling judges
DJJTQ
(Dissolving government, judge control, jury (none), taxation, quartering troops)
Articles of Confederation - ANS-1st guiding doc for U.S. government
Equal representation in one house congress
GOOD: NW Ordinance- slaver/ splitting new territory
WEAKNESSES:
1. No power to tax (borrow state $, but the states are broke!)
2. No president/ executive
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