Civics EOC Review Questions

Who is John Locke?

• Enlightenment Thinker

• Founding Father

What are natural rights?

• life, liberty, property

• freedom of expression

Explain the idea of the social contract.

• Give up rights for government protection.

• self-government

What is the difference between John Locke’s idea of natural rights and Thomas Jefferson?

• life, liberty, and property v. life, liberty, and unalienable rights

• representative democracy and consent of the governed

Who is Montesquieu?

• Enlightenment Thinker

• Framer

What is the constitutional principle of separation of powers?

• government divided into parts

• checks and balances

How did the idea of separation of powers influence James Madison?

• 3 branches

• limited government

What was the Enlightenment?

• period of new ideas

• religious ideas

Natural Law

• born with rights

• state of nature

How did the Enlightenment ideas impact the founding father's beliefs on government?

• power to the people

• authoritarian