Unit 2 Review

The right to life, liberty, and property

• natural rights

• social contract

• natural beauty

• popular sovereignty

An agreement between free individuals and government

• natural rights

• social contract

• popular sovereignty

• separation of powers

This philosopher believed that government power should be divided into three branches.

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Beccaria

An intellectual movement focused on improving government and society using reason and thought.

• natural rights

• Scientific Revolution

• Enlightenment

• 10 Commandments

Which is NOT true about the legacy of the Enlightenment?

• destroyed freedom

• inspired the American Revolution

• questioned the church

• focused on individual rights

In the American Government, each branch has the power to prevent the other branches from abusing power.

• separation of power

• Declaration of Independence

• checks and balances

• popular sovereignty

Social Contract

• Government protects the people so the people follow the government

• The deal you sign when you apply for a job

• The government has the right to fire or hire people

Believed that direct democracy was the perfect form of government. 

• Hobbes
• Locke 
• Rousseau

If government did not work for the people, they are to overthrow it. 

• Hobbes
• Locke
• Rousseau

What 13th century document established the rights listed below?
- Basic rights of citizens
- Rule of law
- Representative assemblies

• the Constitution
• Napoleonic Code
• the Communist Manifesto
• the Magna Carta