Gov Unit 1 Quizziz

What political idea developed by John Lock is based on the belief that citizens must be willing to give up some freedoms in exchange for the protection of their natural rights?

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

• Rule by the Majority

• Divine Rights

What is does the idea of Natural Law mean?

• divine rights of kings

• society agreeing to something

• something made in accordance with long-held traditions

• based on justice that transcends man-made law given by God

What era where the Founding Fathers influenced by ?

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

• Medieval Times

• The Gilded Age

Which is NOT one of the Unalienable Rights in the Declaration of Independence?

• Life

• Property

• Liberty

• pursuit of happiness

What is the belief that kings are given their power directly from God ?

• Democracy

• Kings Law

• Divine Rights of Kings

• Enlightened monarcy

Which explains Republicanism

• Establishment of procedures that limit the power of leaders and government bodies

• Government based on consent of the governed

• Ruling of laws that have been passed down over time

Which philosopher is noted for systemizing English Common Law?

• Blackstone

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Moses

Which philosopher is noted as being a great influence to Thomas Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Offered plan to break the statement on the issue of state representation know as the Great Compromise

• Roger Sherman

• James Madison

• James Wilson

• Alexander Hamilton

Federalist who was principal author of the US Constitution

• Roger Sherman

• James Madison

• James Wilson

• Alexander Hamilton