Topic 2: Foundations of Government (Study Guide)

Which Enlightenment idea is represented by the image?

• separation of powers
• checks and balances
• social contract
• natural law

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 were John Locke's 3 natural rights?

• Life, Liberty, pursuit of happiness

• Live, Laugh, Love

• Life, Liberty, Property

• Life, Speech, Religion

What Enlightenment idea did Montesquieu support?

• Right to a fair trial
• Freedom of Speech
• Freedom of Religion
• Separation of Powers

An agreement among the people and the government is called a

• natural law

• separation of powers

• check

• social contract

a pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in 1776 to convince the American colonists to support becoming independent from England

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

a government document that expanded the powers of the English Parliament and expanded the rights of the people, as well as further limited the rights of the king; written by the members of the English Parliament in 1689

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

a government document that limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility; written by the English nobles in 1215

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

an agreement between individuals that created a government that would provide order and protect the rights of the colonists; written by a group of English Puritans in Massachusetts in 1620

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

popular or representative system where the people create and run their own government

• limited government

• rights

• due process

• rule of law

• self-government