"unalienable rights" specifically mentioned?

Montesquieu is credited with devising the basic Constitutional principle of

The political theory that people form governments for their mutual protection and that government rules only with the consent of those people is known as

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 MOST LIKELY reflects the ideals of which movement?

The ideas of Locke and Rousseau are found MOST easily in which of these documents?

The Declaration of Independence and the "Social Contract Theory" both arose from which philosophical movement?

·Copernicus
· Kepler
· Galileo
Newton
This is a list of people who were pioneers of the

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

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

In the early 17th century, Galileo Galilei was convicted of heresy for claiming that Earth revolved around the Sun. This conviction was an example of

· 16th century Polish astronomer, mathematician, and scholar
· proposed that the Sun was the center of the universe
· often credited with beginning the Scientific Revolution
All of these are describing

The term heliocentrism refers to which belief?

Born in 1643, died in 1727
· English physicist, mathematician, and astronomer
· Described the laws of universal gravitation and laws of motion
· Widely considered the most influential scientist in history
Who is this describing?

Which of these statements is an example of the absolutist power of BOTH Louis XIV of France and Tsar Peter the Great of Russia?

Totalitarianism
Absolutism
Dictatorship
All of these governments are

Who was famously put under house arrest because he challenged the Catholic Church and its teachings by introducing new scientific ideas?

Restraints upon power and authority of government.
Citizens are given individual rights.
Citizens can participate in government decisions.
What type of government do these terms describe?

Checks and Balances
Separation of Powers
Rights of the Accused
All of these are characteristics of which type of government?

Which of these is the BEST example of "unlimited government"?

The term "divine right" is MOST closely related to which of these types of government?

born in England (1632)
philosopher and physician
"social contract" supporter
Two Treatises of Government
Who is being described here?

Sir Isaac Newton is MOST associated with which of these?

French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that the best form of government would be one that practiced

According to the concept of absolutism

Which is the BEST description of a limited government?

Which is the best description of an unlimited government?

This 17th century drawing of a Dutch aristocrat shows an early example of what type of technological tool?