Ideals of Democracy 1.1 Vocabulary

Time period when leading thinkers began to write about the limiting the power of the government and protecting peoples individual liberty and rights

• Enlightenment

• Renaissance

• New Age

• Feudal

Book that claims that humans live in a state of nature. Government is needed to protect people from utter misery and despair.

• Leviathan

• Social Contract

• Keys to a Civil Society

• Second Treaty of Civil Government

Philosopher and writer of "The Leviathan" . He believed that life without government is “solitary, poor,

nasty, brutish, and short.”

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Benjamin Franklin

• AlexanderHamilton

Philosopher who wrote that people are born free and equal and must give consent to be governed.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• John Adams

Philosopher who stated, “Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.” He envisioned citizens voting and participating in government.

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Benjamin Franklin

Philosopher who believed in limited government, a republic and separation of powers

• Rousseau

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

Citizens elect leaders who act on their behest. The leaders act to benefit the citizens, otherwise they will be removed from office.

• Republicanism

• Democracy

• Theocracy

• Autocracy

Government kept under control by checks and balances and separation of powers

• limited government

• Autocracy

• Democracy

• Presidency

The document that laid moral and legal justification for rebellion

• Declaration of Independence

• The U.S. Constitution

• Magna Carta

• Federalist Papers

The framer whose nickname became "Father of the Constitution" because of his influence in creating the new plan for the government.

• James Madison

• George Washington

• Alexander Hamilton

• George Washington