Ancient Influences
This ancient civilization contributed the idea of direct democracy, where citizens participate in government decisions.
What is ancient Greece?
This document limited the English monarch’s power and supported the idea that leaders must obey the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This tradition supported the belief that these should guide human behavior.
What are moral laws?
This thinker argued that people have natural rights, including life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This idea from ancient Greece means citizens participate directly in government decisions.
What is direct democracy?
This ancient civilization contributed the idea of republican government, in which citizens elect representatives.
What is ancient Rome?
This agreement showed that people could create a government for the common good.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
According to the reading, this tradition taught that each person has this.
What value?
This thinker supported dividing government power among separate branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
This Roman form of government has citizens elect representatives to make laws.
What is republican government?
This Roman practice helped make laws clear and public.
What are written laws?
This document protected certain rights and limited the power of the English monarch.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The belief that each person has value helped shape American views about these protections for individuals.
What are individual rights?
Locke’s idea describes an agreement in which people obey laws and government protects their rights.
What is the social contract?
This English agreement and Locke’s social contract both involve people agreeing to create or follow a government.
What are the Mayflower Compact and the social contract?
Along with republican government and written laws, this responsibility to the community was emphasized in ancient Rome.
What is civic duty?
This work was written to encourage colonists to support independence from British rule.
What is Common Sense?
Explain how beliefs about moral laws and each person’s value helped shape ideas about justice and equality before the law.
The tradition’s belief in moral laws and each person’s value helped shape ideas about justice and equality before the law.
According to Locke, what may people do if their government fails to protect their rights?
People may change the government.
Which two ideas help limit government power: one from the Magna Carta and one from Montesquieu?
What are the Magna Carta’s principle that leaders must obey the law and Montesquieu’s separation of powers?
Compare the contributions of Greece and Rome: identify one idea from each civilization that influenced America’s constitutional republic.
Greece contributed direct democracy, while Rome contributed republican government, written laws, or civic duty.
Name two English documents from the game and explain how each one contributed to ideas about rights, agreement, or limited government.
Examples: The Magna Carta supported the rule of law and limited a monarch’s power; the Mayflower Compact showed people could agree to form a government; the English Bill of Rights protected rights and limited the monarch; Common Sense encouraged independence.
A student says the Judeo-Christian tradition influenced American government only by supporting written laws. Correct the student using two ideas from the reading.
The tradition supported the belief that moral laws should guide behavior and that each person has value. These ideas helped shape American views about justice, equality before the law, and individual rights.
Explain how Locke’s natural rights and Montesquieu’s separation of powers both contributed to the idea of limited government.
Locke’s natural rights set out protections government should respect. Montesquieu’s separation of powers divides authority among branches to help prevent any one person or group from becoming too powerful.
Explain how ideas from two different traditions or time periods influenced America’s constitutional republic. Identify each idea and describe its contribution.
Example: Ancient Rome’s republican government influenced representative government, while Locke’s natural rights shaped the belief that government should protect individual rights. Accept other accurate combinations supported by the study guide.