Influences Review (Enlightenment, Docs, Religious, Classical)

Social Contract

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Adam Smith

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Social Contract is an agreement between who?

• The government and the people

• John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu

• The King of England and the colonists

• Jewish followers and Christian followers

Separation of Powers

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Adam Smith

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What is one BIG IDEA from the Magna Carta?

• Self-government

• Limited government

• Separation of Powers

• Inviolable Rights

In the US Constitution, the First Amendment guarantees citizens the right to free speech. Which document can this right be traced back to originally?

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Common Sense

The US government uses a Republic form of government

• John Locke

• Mayflower Compact

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Common Sense

England - Magna Carta

United States - ?

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

• US Constitution

The idea that citizens have Inviolable Rights that no one can take away comes from which Influential Document?

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Common Sense

In Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," Paine argues that the colonists should declare independence from Great Britain and build their own government based on what?

• Representative self-government

• Rule of Law

• The Mayflower Compact

• Separation of Powers

Which of the following demonstrates the influence of the Judeo-Christian tradition of equality on the Founding Fathers?

• The idea that all people are born with the same individual rights

• The idea that citizens should work to create a society that is as fair as possible

• The idea that all people have an individual responsibility to follow the law

• The idea that any human law that goes against a religious law is unjust