Unit 2 Gov. 2021

Document signed in 1689 that guaranteed the rights of English citizens

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

• The English Bill of Righs

• The Petition of Rights

Montesquieu's plan of a separation of to keep the government from getting too powerful in one brach

• Popular Sovereignty

• Checks and Balances

• Rule of Law

• Social Contract

Document written by George Mason and served as a model for the U.S. Bill of Rights

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

Document signed by Charles I of England that further limited the powers of the English Monarch

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

• Petition of Rights

• English Bill of Rights

Written by Thomas Jefferson and led to separation of church and state and served as a model for the 1st amendment

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedoms

• Petition of Rights

• Social Contract

Enlightenment-era work by Thomas Hobbes in which he expresses his ideas on government

• Two Treatises on Government

• Spirit of Laws

• Social Contract

• Leviathan

An agreement by which people give up some freedoms for an organized society

• Social Contract

• Natural Laws

• Rule of Law

• Natural Rights

The rights of "life, liberty, and property" that John Locke argued for

• Natural Rights

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

• Declaration of Independence

In Ancient Greece, Athens had the first _______ which greatly influenced the US government

• Republic

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

Ancient Rome set up a ________ where citizens elected representatives to the Senate to rule.

• Dictatorship

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Republic