Civics Ch 2

Written by Thomas Jefferson and led to separation of church and state and served as a model for the 1st Amendment.

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
• Natural Laws
• Leviathan
• Social Contract

Document signed by Charles I of England that further limited the powers of the English monarch.

• Checks and Balances
• Petition of Right
• Natural Laws
• English Bill of Rights

Enlightenment-era work by Thomas Hobbes in which he expresses his ideas on government.

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
• Natural Laws
• Social Contract
• Leviathan

An agreement by which people give up some freedoms for an organized society.

• Leviathan
• Social Contact
• Virginia Declaration of Independence
• Petition of Right

Document written by George Mason and served as a model/example for the U.S. Bill of Rights.

• Checks and Balances
• Natural Laws
• Virginia Declaration of Independence
• Social Contract

The rights of “life, liberty, and property” that John Locke argued for.

• Leviathan
• Social Contract
• Petition of Right
• Natural Laws

Montesquieu's plan of a separation of to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch.

• Checks and Balances
• Natural Laws
• English Bill of Rights
• Petition of Rights

Document signed in 1689 that guaranteed the rights of English citizens.

• Checks and Balances
• English Bill of Rights
• Leviathan
• Petition of Rights

In Ancient Greece, Athens had the first ___ which greatly influenced the US government.

• Republic
• Democracy
• Monarchy
• Dictatorship

Ancient Rome set up a ___ where citizens elected representatives to the Senate to rule.

• Dictatorship
• Monarchy
• Democracy
• Republic