What did John Locke call the agreement that people entered into with their government?

• A Constitution

• The English Bill of Rights

• The Magna Carta

• A Social Contract

How does natural law relate to John Locke's theory of Social Contract?

• If the government breaks the social contract, the people have a right to rebel against the government according to natural law

• Natural law says that people must abide by the social contract no matter what the king's actions are towards his people

• Natural law has no relation to social contract

• John Locke believed that all colonies should be free from tyranny under natural law

Which of the following have the most in common?

• The Magna Carta and the U.S. Constitution

• English Bill of Rights and Thomas Paine's Common Sense

• The Mayflower Compact and Montesquieu’s separation of powers

• John Locke's Social Contract theory and The Mayflower Compact

What is an example of an Enlightenment idea that is seen in a modern organization?

• European Union working toward economic stability

• Genocide carried out in Rwanda

• United Nations promoting human rights around the world

• Aparteid practiced in South Africa by white government

Thomas Paine wrote ...

• Common Sense

• The Declaration of Independence

• The U.S. Constitution

• The Articles of Confederation

Baron de Montesquieu created in the idea of...

• Social Contract

• Natural Law

• Separation of Powers

• Freedom of Religion

"When the legislature and the executive are united in the same person...there can be no liberty..."

Which Enlightenment thinker would have said the quote above?

• John Locke

• Thomas Paine

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

Which Enlightenment thinker published "Common Sense?"

• Thomas Paine

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

Which of the Constitutional guarantees is most related to the Magna Carta according to the excerpt below:

"No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned,...save by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land...." Magna Carta 1215

• rights of former slaves

• right to bear arms

• the rights of the accused

• voting rights of citizens

What was the benefit to the signers of the Mayflower Compact?

• created self-government, which allowed a better, safer life

• presented the rights of land ownership of the colonist

• created the forerunner to political group in America

• ensured the king's place as ruler of the colonies