Civics Vocab Quiz 1

These are designed to protect your rights and freedoms like life, liberty, and happiness.

• Natural Laws

• Natural Rights

• Individual Liberties

• Inherited Rights

These are the freedoms given to you at birth.

• Natural Laws

• Natural Rights

• Individual Liberties

• Inherited Rights

This is the freedom for people to exercise their rights

• Natural Laws

• Natural Rights

• Individual Liberties

• Inherited Rights

This is the name of the era where science, logic, and reason were the main focus instead of religion and faith.

• Enlightenment

• Entitlement

• Enrapture

• Enevitable

This is the name for the governmental process that ensures one branch of government does not have too much power.

• Checks and Balances

• Separation of Powers

• Branches of Government

• Separation and Balances

This is the term for the idea that government is supported by the people of the nation.

• Natural Law

• Natural Rights

• Consent of the Governed

• Social Contract

This is the agreement made between members of society that create the unwritten rules for the community.

• Social Contract

• Natural Law

• Natural Rights

• Individual Liberties

This philosopher was responsible for ideas that directly influenced Thomas Jefferson’s writing of the Declaration of Independence.

• John Locke

• Montessquieu

• Thomas Paine

• Voltaire

This philosopher created ideas that directly influenced the creation of the US Constitution that included branches of government.

• John Locke

• Montessquieu

• Thomas Paine

• Voltaire

This is the concept that creates the branches of government.

• Checks and Balances

• Separation of Powers

• Branches of Government

• Separation and Balances