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WorksheetsCivics: Foundation of Government - Enlightment
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
What did John Locke call the agreement that people entered into with their government?
A Constitution
The English Bill of Rights
The Magna Carta
A Social Contract
How does natural law relate to John Locke's theory of Social Contract?
If the government breaks the social contract, the people have a right to rebel against the government according to natural law
Natural law says that people must abide by the social contract no matter what the king's actions are towards his people
Natural law has no relation to social contract
John Locke believed that all colonies should be free from tyranny under natural law
Which of the following have the most in common?
The Magna Carta and the U.S. Constitution
English Bill of Rights and Thomas Paine's Common Sense
The Mayflower Compact and Montesquieu’s separation of powers
John Locke's Social Contract theory and The Mayflower Compact
What is an example of an Enlightenment idea that is seen in a modern organization?
European Union working toward economic stability
Genocide carried out in Rwanda
United Nations promoting human rights around the world
Aparteid practiced in South Africa by white government
Thomas Paine wrote ...
Common Sense
The Declaration of Independence
The U.S. Constitution
The Articles of Confederation
Baron de Montesquieu created in the idea of...
Social Contract
Natural Law
Separation of Powers
Freedom of Religion
"When the legislature and the executive are united in the same person...there can be no liberty..."
Which Enlightenment thinker would have said the quote above?
John Locke
Thomas Paine
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Baron de Montesquieu
Which Enlightenment thinker published "Common Sense?"
Thomas Paine
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Which of the Constitutional guarantees is most related to the Magna Carta according to the excerpt below:
"No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned,...save by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land...." Magna Carta 1215
rights of former slaves
right to bear arms
the rights of the accused
voting rights of citizens
What was the benefit to the signers of the Mayflower Compact?
created self-government, which allowed a better, safer life
presented the rights of land ownership of the colonist
created the forerunner to political group in America
ensured the king's place as ruler of the colonies
The Magna Carta introduced the idea of...
absolute monarchy
limited government
social contract
self-government
Direct democracy and republicanism are examples of...
natural rights
social contract
self-government
constitutional monarchy
A modern country that declares independence from a tyrannical country today might be influenced by which document below...
U.S. Constitution
Common Sense
Mayflower Compact
Articles of Confederation
According to John Locke, which rights were guaranteed by natural law?
trial by jury and no cruel or unusual punishments
freedom of speech and of the press
life, liberty, and property
freedom of worship and right to petition government
What most attracted the Founding Fathers to Montesquieu's views on the separation of powers?
It could prevent a central government from bein too powerful and oppressive.
It could protect the rights of the nobility from the actions of the king.
It preserves the privileged, like the king and the nobles, from popular attack.
It raised the power of the judiciary branch to be equal to legislative and executive power.
Which right was established by the Magna Carta?
the right to vote in elections
the right to choose a monarch by the people
the right to freedom of speech
the right to a trial by jury
