Civics EOC Review

What was the impact of Baron Montesquieu’s writings on the Founding Fathers?

• Representative Government

• Separation of Powers

• Social Contract

• Trial by Jury

Locke argued that we had 3 main natural rights. What are they? (Select 3)

• Life

• Liberty

• Pursuit of Happiness

• Property

John Locke believed that all people had:

• Natural Rights

• Individual rights

• Some rights

Thomas Jefferson used John Locke's natural rights in which famous U.S. document?

• U.S. constitution

• Declaration of independence

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

What is an agreement between people and the government?

• Consent
• Natural Rights
• Social Contract
• Voting

To Montesquieu, what was the best form of government?

• where each powers (legislative, executive, and judicial) were separate and kept each other in check to prevent any branch from becoming too powerful

• democracy

• absolute monarchy

• every man for himself

The idea that people give up some of their power to the government in exchange for the protection of the laws that government provides.

• Social Contract Theory

• Divine Right

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Natural Rights

Which Enlightenment thinker argued that all people were born equal and had natural rights to life, liberty, and property?

• Thomas Paine
• Baron de Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke

The 3 concepts in the Magna Carta that influence the Founding Father are Limited Government, Trial by Jury and Strong control by parliament.

• True

• False

The 2 rights that are found in the English Bill of Rights and the U.S Bill of Rights are the No cruel and unusual punishment (8th Amendment) and Freedom of Speech (1st Amendment).

• True

• False