Enlightenment Ideas
The purpose of government
What is, to protect natural rights?
The power in this type of government is held by one person.
This document limited the power of the king in 1215 AD.
What is the Magna Carta?
This is the way that Americans were taxed under the Articles of Confederation.
What is state power and control?
This is the plan of representation favored by large states.
Virginia Plan
Life, Liberty, and Property
What are the natural rights?
The power in this government is held by an oligarchy or an aristocracy.
What is rule by few?
This document was the first British self government in America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This is the only branch of government that existed under the Articles.
What is Congress?
This is the plan that eventually became the House of Representatives.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This is the idea that all people enter into an agreement to live in an orderly society.
What is the social contract?
The power in this government is held by the majority of the people.
What is rule by many?
This document listed out the individual rights of British citizens.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This is the amount of states required to amend the Articles of Confederation?
This is the reason why small states favored the New Jersey Plan.
What is the fact that each state would be equally represented in Congress?
Also called popular sovereignty, this is the idea that authority comes from the people.
This is a disadvantage of democracy.
What is a lengthy amount of time to pass laws?
This document is the earliest example that we have of the rule of law.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This is the act that organized how new states would be admitted into the union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This is the plan that resolved the issue of representing enslaved individuals in Congress.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This is the writer who focused on natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
This is a disadvantage of an authoritarian government.
What is the oppression of the people?
This document convinced American colonists to revolt from their king.
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
This is the amount of states required to pass a law under the Articles of Confederation.
What is 9?
This is the plan that eventually created the bicameral Congress that we have today.
What is the Great Compromise?