Declaration of Independence

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

• Charles Cornwallis

• Andrew Jackson

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

Which of the following Enlightenment Ideas was NOT part of the Declaration of Independence?

• Right to life

• Right to liberty

• Right to property

• 3 separate branches of government

Idea that government must protect people's rights, and that people choose their elected leaders:

• Natural Rights

• Social Contract

• Limited Government

• Divine Right of Kings

Government cannot take these away from people because they are born with them:

• Natural Rights

• Divine Rights

• Limited Rights

• Socially Contracted Rights

Enlightenment thinker who wrote about "Natural Rights" and the "Social Contract"

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Locke

A person becomes King or Queen because God chose them:

• Socially-Contracted Right of Kings

• Natural Right of Kings

• Communist Right of Kings

• Divine Right of Kings

The idea that people should rule themselves is known as:

• Popular Sovereignty

• Representative Democracy

• Direct Democracy

• Limited Government

Type of government that is ruled by a King or Queen

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Theocracy

• Oligarchy

Type of Democracy that the Founders wanted to set up:

• Direct Democracy

• Limited Democracy

• Total Democracy

• Representative Democracy

Author of "Common Sense"

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Ben Franklin

• Thomas Paine