Civics Vocabulary Quiz Review Unit 2 Ms. Buckley's Class

A written legal agreement signed in 1215 that limited the English monarch's power

• Magna Carta

• Petition of Right

• English Bill of Rights

• Social Contract

Document signed by Charles I of England that further limited the powers of the English monarch even more than the Magna Carta.

• Magna Carta

• Petition of Right

• English Bill of Rights

• Social Contract

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

• Declaration of Independence

• Social Contract

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

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

• Bill of Rights

• English Bill of Rights

• Social Contract

• Petition of Right

Written by Thomas Hobbes

• Declaration of Independence

• Leviathan

• Mayflower Compact

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

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

• Natural Laws (Rights)

• Checks and Balances

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

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

• Social Contract

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

• Checks and Balances

Formal document, written in 1620, that provided law and order to the Plymouth colony

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Mayflower Compact

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

A 1776 essay by Thomas Paine that urged the colonies to declare independence

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Common Sense

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

• 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

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom