What forced King John of England to grant rights to the nobility, respect the rights of his subjects, and accept limitations to his powers as king?

The Petition of Right is an important document in Great Britain's history and in the development of their political system. This document was presented to King Charles 1 by Parliament in 1628. Some of the important ideas presented to the monarch included punishments to violations of laws could not be excessive, no forced quartering of soldiers by citizens, the right to "habeas corpus" and that taxes must be approved by Parliament.

Using the prompt, which ideas are most influenced by the Petition of Right?

Which of these was a major philosophy expressed in the Declaration of Independence?

Montesquieu is credited with devising the basic Constitutional principle of

[I]t is plainly contrary to [against] the law of nature... that children should command old men, fools wise men, and that the privileged few should gorge themselves... while the starving multitude are in want of the bare necessities of life.-Rousseau, Second Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, 1755

Rousseau's ideas of "natural law" led to his publication of The Social Contract in 1763. His writings reflect Enlightenment ideals because he desired

Man being born with a title to perfect freedom, and enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature, equally with any other man, hath by nature a power, not only to preserve his life, liberty and estate, against the injuries and attempts of other men; but to judge of, and punish the breaches of that law in others.-John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1690

John Locke's writing reflects the ideals of the Enlightenment in that

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government..."The Declaration of Independence, 1776

This passage BEST represents which of these theories in the Declaration of Independence?

Which European philosopher proposed that dividing the government into three branches would prevent any one person or group from gaining total control?

What did the ideas of John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, and Jean Jacques Rousseau have in common?

XIX. NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right. The Magna Carta, 1215

Article 29 of the Magna Carta establishes the concept of

The ideas contained in the Declaration of Independence were MOST influenced by

The Founding Fathers believed that all people are born with "natural rights." Which line from the Declaration of Independence BEST represents the idea of "natural rights"?

"The social contract's terms, when they are well understood, can be reduced to a single stipulation: the individual member alienates himself totally to the whole community together with all his rights. This is first because conditions will be the same for everyone when each individual gives himself totally, .....Once this multitude is united this way into a body, an offense against one of its members is an offense against the body politic. It would be even less possible to injure the body without its members feeling it. Duty and interest thus equally require the two contracting parties to aid each other mutually. The individual people should be motivated from their double roles as individuals and members of the body, to combine all the advantages which mutual aid offers them...." - from The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1763

How did Rousseau's The Social Contract influence early American documents such as the Declaration of Independence?

The Petition of Right is an important document in Great Britain's history and in the development of their political system. This document was presented to King Charles 1 by Parliament in 1628. Some of the important ideas presented to the monarch included punishments to violations of laws could not be excessive, no forced quartering of soldiers by citizens, the right to "habeas corpus" and that taxes must be approved by Parliament.

The Petition of Right was presented to King Charles in order to protect

According to John Locke, if the government failed to protect natural rights, what did citizens have a right to do?

King Charles made a deal to sign this document if Parliament agreed to give him money for war. This document established the principle of Rule of Law that would give citizens rights that not even the government could take away.

This document established that there should be no taxation of the people without the representation of parliament and reinforced earlier laws set forth in previous documents.