Government Final 2024

The Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights were both significant in that they

• Gave more power to the king

• Ended the two English Civil Wars

• Limited the power of the king and ensured the rights of the people by strengthening Parliament

• Established democracies in the American colonies

This is the idea that people surrender some of their power to the state in exchange for some form of protection by the state.

• Consensus

• Sovereignty

• Social Contract

• Limited Government

This is the concept that governments receive their permission to govern from the people themselves.

• Consent of the governed

• Limited Government

• Consensus

• Sovereignty

This French Enlightenment thinker believed that governmental power should be separated into separate branches and that those branches should check and balance the power of each other.

• John Locke

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Jean Jaques Rousseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

This term refers to political authority being granted by law or by state or national constitution.

• Power

• Authority

• Legitimacy

• Sovereignty

The Declaration of Independence was based largely on the ideas of

• Aristotle

• King George III

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

Both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke believed that:

• An absolute monarchy is the best form of government

• Government is created through a social contract

• Government should protect natural rights

• People forfeit their natural rights when entering into a social contract

According to the authors of the Declaration of Independence, the power of the government is derived from what?

• Those entrusted by the people as their representatives

• The monarch

• A supreme deity

• The permission of those governed

John Locke believed that the ultimate role of government is the protection of:

• Privileges

• The monarchy

• Natural Rights

• Safety

This is the idea that kings receive their power from God and are accountable only to God.

• Divine Right

• Tabula Rasa

• Consent of the Governed

• Social Contract