Quiz 4.2

the division of government among legislative, executive, and judicial branches

• Republic

• Separation of Powers

• Natural Rights

• Direct Democracy

The citizens elect representatives to make laws in this form of government

• Separation of Powers

• Republic

• Direct Democracy

• Natural Rights

Direct democracy was first practiced in

• The United States

• Britain

• Greece

• Rome

The Roman republic offered the colonial legislatures a model of

• Town Meetings

• All powerful monarchy

• Limited Speech

• Representative Government

Both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights

• set up a new government

• made the monarchy stronger

• listed basic freedoms

• all of these

Writers Locke and Montesquieu inspired the colonists with the ideas of

• republic and direct democracy

• natural rights and separation of powers

• free speech and free press

• traditions and values

Unlike the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights applied to

• all citizens

• only nobles

• a few English colonists

• some members of Parliament

The colonists were influenced by

• the democracy of Athens

• England’s limits on its king

• the Roman republic

• all of these

people are born with these and no government can take them away

• Direct Democracy

• Republic

• Natural Rights

• Separation of Powers

the citizens themselves make laws in this form of government

• Republic

• Separation of Powers

• Natural Rights

• Direct Democracy