Modern World History Prologue Test

form of government in which citizens rule and make laws directly rather than through representatives

• democracy

• republic

• monarchy

• direct democracy

Greek meaning of "rule of the people"

• democracy

• direct democracy

• oligarchy

• republic

A law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law

• Code of Law

• nature's law

• god's law

• English Bill of Rights

An agreement among members of society, people submitted to an authoritarian ruler to prevent disorder and have protection.

• citizen

• monarchy

• social contract

• government

Why did Parliament and the monarchy clash in English society?

• Over the rights of the people

• The Petition of Right

• Religion

• because Parliament was dissolved

He made reforms by creating the Council of Five Hundred

• Plato

• Jerome

• Cleisthenes

• William Duke of Normandy

What is Divine Right?

• dignity that could never be taken away

• taxing without Parliament's consent

• King has absolute power

• belief monarchs were chosen by God & responsible only to God

What is Bill of Rights?

• an agreement among members of society

• bill that limited the rights of the king

• code focused more on morality & ethics

• formal summary of the rights & liberties believed essential to the people

What did John Locke believe about government and citizens?

• liberty should be safeguarded by a separation of powers

• believed humans had by nature, the right to life, liberty & property & the government's power comes from the people.

• the only legitimate government came from the consent of the governed

• to examine the nature of the world & of human belief

Which is meaning of Petition of Right

• document attempting to limit royal power

• powers of government were to be divided between the federal or central governments

• rule based on citizenship

• rule is hereditary