Religious Stuff
British Stuff
Roman & Greek Stuff
Other Stuff
100

Rooted in Judaism and Christianity

Judeo-Christian

100

England's lawmaking body of officials

Parliament

100

Believed in a mixed constitution

Aristotle

100

Free market economics

Capitalism

200

Started the Protestant Reformation with the 95 Theses

Luther

200

Believed in authoritarianism to solve the state of nature

Hobbes

200

Thought that direct democracy would become mob rule

Plato

200

Representative democracy

Republic

300

Movement against the corruption of the Catholic Church

Reformation

300

Natural rights protections are imperative within a social contract

Locke

300
Voluntarily relinquished power

Cincinnatus

300

Natural rights in the Declaration of Independence 

Inalienable rights

400

Personal convictions and principles of right and wrong

Private morality

400

Codified English common law

Blackstone

400

Roman Consul that fought for common good

Cicero

400

Kings rule by God's via authority

Divine right

500

Legalized Christianity in Rome

Constantine

500

Written protection of rights in England (1215)

Magna Carta

500

Form of Greek and Roman government that heavily influenced America

Classical Republicanism

500

The end to the state of nature

Social contract

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