AP USGoPo - Reading Guide
Ch. 1: Founding Principles
Term/Concept/Event/Person
Description
Significance
Civil liberties
Those personal freedoms
protected from arbitrary
governmental interference or
deprivations by constitutional
guarantee
The protection of civil liberties
lies at the core of the Bill of
Rights.
Thomas Hobbes
The Leviathon
John Locke
Second Treatise of Civil
Government
Natural law
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract
Popular sovereignty
Baron de Montesquieu
The Spirit of the Laws
republicanism
Limited government
Declaration of
Independence
James Madison
George Washington
The Grand Committee
Representative republic
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Representative democracy
Participatory democracy
Pluralist democracy
Interest groups
Elite democracy
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
initiative
referendum
Federalist No. 10
Brutus No. 1