Documents
The earliest known written law
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Men are born as blank slates
Who is Locke?
An agreement between mankind and the government
What is social contract?
An eye for an eye ...
What is Hammurabi's Code?
A government that is controlled by the people who live within the country
What is self-government?
What is the 12 Tables?
All men are free and equal
Who is Rousseau
Life, liberty and property
What are natural rights?
This is one of the earliest examples of uniform laws
What is the 12 Tables?
This is a group of peers who decide if a citizen is guilty of committing a crime
What is a jury?
This contained the first example of due process
Who is Montesquieu?
Process the government must follow to protect people's rights and liberties
What is due process?
This document established a direct democracy
What is the Mayflower Compact?
John Locke believed that all individuals were born with these
What are natural rights?
This document made Parliament more powerful than the king.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Wanted the church and the government to be separate
Who is Voltaire?
Condition in which people lived before the creation of governments
What is state of nature?
This document outlined protections for the people such as open elections and no cruel or unusual punishment.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The ship carrying the Pilgrims sailed from and to this town
What is Plymouth (from England to Massachusetts)?
This document was the first time the king was subject to the law, as well as the citizens
What is the Magna Carta?
Believed that if government is not protecting natural rights, the people should rebel
Who is Locke?
Period in which people began to use reason and logic to question the status quo
What is the enlightenment?
These two documents both extended freedoms to the people and limited the power of the king
What are the Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights?
What is a limited government?