Enlightenment Thinkers
He believed life in the State of Nature was "nasty, brutish, and short".
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
The famous 1776 pamphlet written by Thomas Paine.
What is Common Sense?
The branch of government that makes laws.
What is The Legislative Branch?
Why the Framers created the Electoral College instead of a direct national vote.
What is To Prevent Large States From Dominating Small States?
The idea that government gets its power from the permission of the people.
What is Consent of the Governed?
He believed all people are born with Natural Rights.
Who is John Locke?
Which founding document contains the explicit List of Grievances alleging 27 specific abuses committed by King George III?
What is The Declaration of Independence?
Which Enlightenment concept, famously detailed by Montesquieu, prevents any single government branch from concentrating power by distributing distinct authority among co-equal branches?
What is Separation of Powers?
The part of Congress that votes to impeach a president.
What is the House of Representatives?
An agreement between the people and their government trading some freedom for protection.
What is a Social Contract?
He came up with the idea of Checks and Balances.
Who is Montesquieu?
The amendment that protects you from police searching your home without a warrant.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This branch of government interprets the laws.
What is The Judicial Branch?
The part of Congress that holds the impeachment trial.
What is The Senate?
Rights that every human is born with that cannot be taken away.
What are Natural Rights?
He wrote, "Man is born free, but everywhere is in chains".
Who is Rousseau?
What constitutional phrase from the 5th and 14th Amendments guarantees that the government cannot deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without fair legal procedures?
This branch has the power to reject, or veto laws passed by Congress
What is The Executive Branch?
What fraction of the Senate must vote to convict an impeached president in order to remove them from office?
What is Two-Thirds?
The political phrase used by colonists to protest paying British taxes without having a voice in Parliament.
What is Taxation Without Representation?
He believed an absolute monarchy was the best form of government.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
The Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines established that students do not lose their First Amendment rights at school unless their speech causes what?
What is Disruption?
Which constitutional body holds the sole power to confirm Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court and federal courts?
What is The Senate?
The thinker who would dislike the Electoral College because he believed in direct democracy.
Who is Rousseau?
A hypothetical condition where there are no laws, no government, and total freedom.
What is State of Nature?