Fast & Curious Influential Documents

A government document that expanded the powers of the English Parliament and expanded the rights of the people, as well as further limited the rights of the king; written by the members of the English Parliament in 1689

• Common Law
• English Bill of RIghts
• House of Burgess
• The Federalist Papers

A government document that limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility; written by the English Nobles in 1215.

• Magna Carta
• Opus Dei
• The Federalist Papers
• Common Sense

An agreement between indviduals that created a government that would provide order and protect the rights of the colonists; written by a group of English Puritans in Massachusetts in 1620.

• Compact
• Mayflower Compact
• Mercedes Compact
• Habeas Corpus

A set of things that people believe they should be free to do.

• Social Contract
• Rights
• Rule of Law
• Magna Carta

A concept that those who govern are bound by the laws; no one is above the law.

• Law of the Governed
• Rule of Law
• Personal Responsibility
• Self-Government

What document is the supreme law of the land?

• U.S. Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

A pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in 1776 to convince the American colonists to support becoming independent from England.

• Common Law
• Common Sense
• Compact
• Magna Carta

Wrote Leviathan. Believed that the ideal government was a lone ruler with unlimited power.

• Montesquieu
• Locke
• Hobbes
• Machieavelli

Developed and popularized the concept of "separation of powers."

• Locke
• Hobbes
• Rosseau
• Montesquieu

Said in order for the government to protect its citizens, certain rights must be given up. He called this a Social Contract.

• Hobbes
• Rousseau
• Locke
• Montesquieu