enlightenment 1

distributing legislative, executive and judicial powers to several government bodies rather than allowing the concentration of these powers into one body or person

• Separation of Powers

• Absolute Monarchy

• Democratic Government

• Constitutional Government

an agreement between rulers and the people

• Consent

• Laissez Faire

• Natural Law

• Social Contract

John Locke believed that the purpose of government was to protect people’s natural rights.

• True
• False

Who argued that people had a right to overthrow a government that does not protect their natural rights?

• Locke
  
• Voltaire
  
• Newton
  
• Hobbes
  

Which of the following was the first written set of government in the American colonies?

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

• English Bill of Rights

What was a pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in 1776 to convince the American colonists to support becoming independent from England?

• English Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

What was the government document written in 1689 that expanded the powers of the English Parliament, expanded the rights of the people, and further limited the rights of the king?

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

The Mayflower Compact promoted the big idea of...

• self-government

• due process

• rights

• rule of law

In the Magna Carta, the idea of limited government requires for the king to govern according to which of the following?

• the nobles' demands

• the serfs' demands

• the rules of the feudal system

• the rule of law

According to Montesquieu, what is the main purpose of government?

• to maintain law and order, political liberty, and the property of the individual

• to build a wall

• to create laws that everyone agree on

• to open Chic Fil A on Sundays