VUS SOL 4

New political ideas about the relationship between people and _________________ helped to justify the Declaration of Independence

• Government

• Their rulers

• God

• Animals

Who's ideas were most influential in the American belief in self-government?

• George Washington

• John Locke

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

John Locke called life, liberty, and property what?

• God-given rights

• Can't take 'em rights

• Natural rights

• Unalienable rights

John Locke said all original power resides with the _________

• President

• King

• Congress

• People

John Locke said people and government enter into a social contract to establish what?

• Ordered liberty

• Police, fire department, EMS, etc.

• Separation of church and state

• The Democratic Party

John Locke said have the right to do what if the government breaks the social contract?

• Pray

• Alter or abolish it

• Nothing

• Send in the military

John Locke's ideas about sovereignty and rights of the people were _____________

• Outdated

• New

• Radical

• Old

Who wrote Common Sense?

• John Locke

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Thomas Paine

What was the pamphlet called that challenged the rule of the colonies by the King of England?

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Social Contract

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• John Locke

• John Hancock

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington