What are the Key principles of American Government?

• Rule of Law

• Due Process

• equality of mankind

• limited government

• natural rights

Everyone must follow the same written rules regardless of office or wealth

• Due process

• Rule of Law

• Natural Rights

• Equality of Man

All people are equal and deserve the same rights and protections?

• Rule of Law

• Due Process

• Equality of Man

• Limited Government

Government should be designed in a way that makes it impossible for it to gain too much power.

• Rule of Law

• Limited Government

• Due Process

• Equality of Man

Select the ideas of John Locke that influenced the United States system of governance.

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

• If the government isn't protecting our rights we can change it.

• Separation of Power

• Checks and Balances

Which document is most associated with John Locke's Ideas

• Common sense

• The Constitution

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Preamble

Who inspired the creation of three coequal branches of government

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Paine

• Jefferson

What did the pamphlet Common Sense by Thomas Paine do?

• Created separation of powers

• Told great Britain the United States was becoming its own nation

• Convinced the American colonists to break away and fight the British

• Established the idea of a social contract

Key ideas in the Magna Carta

• Rule of Law

• Limited Government

• Separation of Powers

• Equality of Man

• Trial by Jury, Due Process and right to justice

What Ideas were included in the English Bill of Rights? Select All

• Natural Rights:

• No Taxation without Representation

• Due process (6th),

• No excessive Punishment (8th )

• Amendment process