Topic 1 Lesson 4: Rights and Natural Law

What principle of democracy is found in Judaism?

• Power should be distributed among leaders

• People should choose their leaders.

• All people are equal under the law

• The majority make laws for all.

Which group formed an early democracy based on the Great Law of Peace?

• ancient Athens

•  the five Iroquois Nations

•  the ancient Romans

• English nobles

How does a direct democracy differ from a representative democracy?

• The people elect leaders who make decisions for the community

• The people as a whole make decisions for the community

• Rulers are chosen from within the same family.

•  Rules place limits on the powers of the government

What impact did the English Bill of Rights have on the government of Great Britain?

• It gave Parliament more power than the king

• It gave equal rights to all citizens in Great Britain

• It made Great Britain a representative democracy.

•  It established the principle of limited government.

Which Enlightenment thinker believed that all people have natural rights that should be protected by government?

• . Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

Which system of laws based on judges’ decisions influence the American system of laws?

• the Laws of Hammurabi

• the Justinian Code

• the Twelve Tables

• English common law