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inherent or natural rights possessed by all as a birthright of humanity.

•  Laws of nature and nature’s God

• The divine right of kings

• Unalienable rights

• Right of resistance to illegitimate government

People have a right to create a government to protect their rights, and governments are established for the limited purposes of securing individual rights; authority is derived from the consent of the governed and people have the right to alter or abolish government when it fails to fulfill its purpose.

• Right of resistance to illegitimate government

• Judeo-Christian law

• Social Contract Theory

  in order

• Laws of nature and nature’s God

is America founded under Republicanism

• Yes

• No, we're only a direct democracy

• No becaues we have democrats

• No, Were a Communist Nation

Match the following philosophies with the right definition

• belief that monarchs were chosen by God, giving the monarch unlimited authority

• Social Contract Theory

• Laws of nature and nature’s God

• Divine right of kings

• effectively restrains the powers of the government and guarantees certain rights to the people

• Constitutionalism

• developed rational laws to describe social behavior and applied findings in support of human rights

• The Enlightenment

• Man must give up some rights & Freedom to the Government

• Includes standards of justice which transcend laws made by humans; also called natural law

What Individuals informed American Founding Documents (Multiple Right Answers)

• William Blackstone

• John Locke

• Charles de Montesquieu

• George Washington

"Father of the Consitution"

• John Jay

• James Madison

• John Adams

• George Mason

Father of the Bill of Rights

• Roger Sherman

• Alexander Hamilton

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Mason

 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Jay

• Alexander Hamilton

• James Madison