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Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Law based on customs and prior legal decisions; used in civil cases.
a)
Common Law
b)
Common Sense
c)
Due Process
d)
Tort
2.
A pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in 1776 to convince the American colonists to support becoming independent from England.
a)
Common Law
b)
Common Sense
c)
Compact
d)
Magna Carta
3.
An official agreement made by two or more parties.
a)
Deal
b)
Mayflower Compact
c)
Due Process
d)
Compact
4.
The idea that people have the right to fair and reasonable laws, and that the government leaders and officials have to follow rules when enforcing laws and treat all people in the same way.
a)
12th Amendment
b)
Habeas Corpus
c)
Limited Government
d)
Due Process
5.
A government document that expanded the powers of the English Parliament and expanded the rights of the people, as well as further limited the rights of the king; written by the members of the English Parliament in 1689
a)
Common Law
b)
English Bill of RIghts
c)
House of Burgess
d)
The Federalist Papers
6.
The principle that the government has to provide a cause or reason for holding a person in jail
a)
Right to a speedy trial
b)
Habeas Corpus
c)
Double Jeopardy
d)
The Inquisition
7.
A government that has been limited in power by a constitution or written agreement.
a)
Limited Monarchy
b)
Anarchy
c)
Coup de tat
d)
Limited Government
8.
A system of government in which the king or queen shares authority with an elected legislature and agrees to be bound by a constitution or a set of laws, also known as a constitutional monarch
a)
Absolute Monarchy
b)
Democracy
c)
Limited Monarchy
d)
Substitute Powers
9.
A government document that limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility; written by the English Nobles in 1215.
a)
Magna Carta
b)
Opus Dei
c)
The Federalist Papers
d)
Common Sense
10.
An agreement between indviduals that created a government that would provide order and protect the rights of the colonists; written by a group of English Puritans in Massachusetts in 1620.
a)
Compact
b)
Mayflower Compact
c)
Mercedes Compact
d)
Habeas Corpus
11.
A set of things that people believe they should be free to do.
a)
Social Contract
b)
Rights
c)
Rule of Law
d)
Magna Carta
12.
A concept that those who govern are bound by the laws; no one is above the law.
a)
Law of the Governed
b)
Rule of Law
c)
Personal Responsibility
d)
Self-Government
13.
Popular or representative System where the people create and run their own government.
a)
Rule of law
b)
Popular Soverignty
c)
Autocracy
d)
Self-government
14.
Wrote Leviathan. Believed that the ideal government was a lone ruler with unlimited power.
a)
Montesquieu
b)
Locke
c)
Hobbes
d)
Machieavelli
15.
Developed and popularized the concept of "separation of powers."
a)
Locke
b)
Hobbes
c)
Rosseau
d)
Montesquieu
16.
Said in order for the government to protect its citizens, certain rights must be given up. He called this a Social Contract.
a)
Hobbes
b)
Rousseau
c)
Locke
d)
Montesquieu
17.
Promoted "Natural Rights" and stated that the governments role was to ensure those rights were protected.
a)
Locke
b)
Rosseau
c)
Montesquieu
d)
Hobbes
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