Civics & Government review 1

Who believed in separation of powers?

• John Locke

• Thomas Jefferson

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

What are the rights you have ffrom birth that the government should defend called?

• Natural Law
• Natural Rights
• State of Nature
• Social Contract

What were the Natural Rights, according to Locke? (select the best answer)

• Safety
• Life, Liberty, and pursuit of happiness
• Property
• Life, Liberty, and Property

This person thought a natural law for protecting rights was to separate government into three branches

• Diderot
• Wollstonecraft
• Beccaria
• Montesquieu

According to Locke, all humans share a set of __________.

•  internal organs
• natural rights
• hopes and dreams
• traits and motivations

Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke would all support:

• A dictatorship
• A democracy
• An absolute monarchy
• All of these

Guess the philosopher who inspired this section of the US Constitution:

Article. II ,Section. 1.The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. Article. I., Section 1 All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Article III., Section 1: The judicial Power shall be vested in one supreme Court. . .

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Montequieu

According to John Locke, if the government didn't protect the people's natural rights, what could the people do?

• Overthrow the government

• Petition the government for their rights

• Nothing, the people don't have rights

The Mayflower Compact helped establish which of the following American traditions?

• representative democracy

• republican form of government

• self-government

• bicameral government

What role did the government have, according to John Locke?

• Protect the people's natural rights

• Take away people's natural rights

• Help determine the people's natural rights