Enlightenment Thinkers & Influential Documents

What is a government that a group of people create and run by themselves called?

• Self-Government

• Limited Government

• Limited Monarchy

• Selective Service

What is a political system in which government powers are restricted, usually by a written constitution?

• Self-Government

• Limited Government

• Social Contract

• Compact

This principle of government says no one is above the law. Everyone must obey the laws, including government officials.

• Social Contract

• Rule of Law

• Due Process

• Separation of Powers

What would you call the rights and liberties that all people have by virtue of being human. These are also sometimes called "Individual Rights" or "Human Rights."

• Limited Rights

• Rule of Rights

• Due Rights

• Natural Rights

What is the idea that the powers of Government should be split between two or more strongly independent branches (The US has 3 Branches) to prevent any one person or group from gaining too much power?

• Rule of Law

• Limited Government

• Separation of Powers

• Natural Rights

What is the primary or main purpose of the Government?

• To make government leaders rich.

• To protect citizens' natural rights.

• To create parks and wildlife sanctuaries.

• To decide what is and is not popular.

In John Locke's Social Contract, citizens listen to the government, and the government protects their rights. If the government is not doing its job by protecting citizens' rights, what do the citizens have the right to do?

• Alter or Abolish the Government and replace it with a new one.

• Search and Seize the Government and take their belongings.

• Regulate or Sanction the Government and pass laws that help get the government running again.

• Tax and Quarter the Government and make sure it doesn't happen again.

The Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights both deal with what main issue?

• Social Contract

• Limited Monarchy or Limited Government

• Enlightenment

• Self Government

When the pilgrims landed in the Americas, they wrote the Mayflower Compact. What did the Mayflower Compact mainly help provide?

• Limited Government

• Self Government

• Rule of Law

• Natural Rights

The Magna Carta accomplished what purpose?

• It limited the power of the king.

• It gave more power to the king.

• It made the king share his power with the queen.

• It did not affect the king's power at all.