EOC review quiz civics

According to John Locke, which agreement did individuals enter into to form their own society?

• constitution

• social contract

• mayflower compact

• english bill of rights

2. According to John Locke, which rights were guaranteed by natural law?

a. Trial by jury and no cruel and unusual punishments

b. Freedom of speech and of the press

c. Life, liberty, property

d. Freedom of worship and the right to petition

• Trial by jury and no cruel and unusual punishments

• freedom of speech and of the press

• life ,liberty ,property

• freedom of worship and the right to petition

3. Which most attracted the Founding Fathers to Montesquieu's views on the separation of powers?

• It could help prevent the central government from becoming tyrannical and oppressive

• It could protect the rights of the nobility from actions of the king

• c. It could preserve the privileges of the monarch and nobles from popular attack

• . It raised judicial power to a level of equality with legislative and executive power

4. How was Locke's social contract theory related to his belief in natural law?

• a. He argued subjects had the right to rebel against a ruler who acted against natural law

• b. He argued that whatever the king did was good according to natural law

• c. He argued that natural law required the colonists to be given their independence

• d. HE argued that God had especially chosen kings to rule over their subjects as part of nature

5.which of the following are most similar?

• the mayflower compact and john locke's social contract theory

• the english bill of rights and thomas paine's common sense

• Magna Carta and Montesquieu's seperation of powers

• The Mayflower Compact and Montesquieu's seperation of powers

No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except

by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the low of the land."

Which right was guaranteed in this excerpt from Magna Carta?

a. Trial by jury

b. No taxation without representation

c. Freedom of the press d. Freedom of religion

• Trial by jury

• b. No taxation without representation

• c. Freedom of the press

• d. Freedom of religion

7. Which describes an impact of Magna Carta on the American Colonists in the 1770s?

• They believed they could not be taxed without their consent

• They believed they could not be governed by a far-away island

• They thought they had the right to overthrow a king who did not protect their rights

• d. They favored a separation of the powers of government into different branches

8. Which right was established by Magna Carta in 1215?

• The right to vote in elections

• The right to choose the monarch

• The right to freedom of speech

• the right to trial by jury

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• Natural law

• separation of powers

• divine right of kings

• guarantee of certain individual rights

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