ENMS Foundations Of Government Centers Quiz

The first document to establish self-government in the colonies. It was signed on the Mayflower before the passengers left the ship.

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

This pamphlet was written by Thomas Paine. It encouraged colonists to gain their independence from England.

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

In England, this document guaranteed the right to bear arms, outlawed cruel and unusual punishment and established freedom from taxation without representation. We borrowed many of these ideas for the Bill of Rights.

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

The first document to limit the powers of the king of England. It was signed in 1215.

• English Bill of Rights

• Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

Government or control of a country by its own members rather than by members of a different country.

• dictatorship

• monarchy

• monarchy

• self-government

A group of leaders who united the 13 colonies, declared independence from Great Britain and built the framework of the government for the United States. Many of their ideas came from the Enlightenment philosophers.

• House of Representatives

• Congress

• Founding Fathers

• Senate

John Locke believed that governments should only exist to serve the will of the people. He believed that members of a society give up some of their power to the government and in return, the government protects the people.

• social contract

• legal contract

• democracy

• natural law

This is the idea that this what happens when there are no rules , no one in charge and there is a lack of a central government.

• State of Nature

• Social Contact

• Blank Slate

• Separation of Powers