Unit 2 Test: Foundations of American Government

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

• Leviathan

• English Bill of Rights

• Social Contract

• Virginia Statue of Religious Freedom

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

• Natural Laws

• Petition of Right

• Checks and Balances

• English Bill of Rights

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

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Checks and Balances

• Leviathan

• Petition of Right

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

• Social Contract

• Natural Laws

• Petition of Right

• English Bill of Rights

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

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Natural Laws

• Petition of Right

• Leviathan

The rights of “life, liberty, and property” that John Locke argued for.

• Social Contract

• Natural Laws

• Checks and Balances

• English Bill of Rights

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

• Checks and Balances

• Social Contract

• Virginia Statue of Religious Freedom

• Natural Laws

Document signed in 1689 that guaranteed the rights of English citizens.

• Petition of Right

• Social Contract

• English Bill of Rights

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

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