Judeo-Christian Influences
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Enlightenment Influences
Definitions
100
Who gives humans their Inalienable Rights
the creator
100
Who was the King of England when the Magna Carta was first signed?
King John
100
In the 1680s, who was fighting for control of the English government?
the King and Parliament
100
Who are the 2 Enlightenment thinkers that inspired the Founders the Most?
John Locke
Baron De Montesquieu
100
What is the term for the following definition?
Government and all citizens abide by the same laws
rule of law
200
Since all humans have individual worth, this means all humans are created?
Equally/in the image of God
200
Name 2 of the ideas/influences from the Magna Carta
fair trial
right to justice
due process
limited government
200
Name 2 of the ideas/influences from the English Bill of Rights
Right to Life, Liberty, Property
No Taxation without Representation
Speedy and Fair Trial
No excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment
200
Name 2 of John Locke's big influential ideas
Natural Law
Natural Rights
Consent of the Governed
Social Contract
200
What is the term for the following definition?
Something that is due to a person or governmental body by law, tradition, or nature; a just claim
Rights
300
What are the 2 main premises of the Judeo-Christian Tradition?
Humans have Intrinsic Value
Humans are Inherently Flawed
300
Whose power did the Magna Carta greatly limit?
the Monarch (king or queen)
300
The English Bill of Rights officially gave more power to which part of the English Government?
Parliament
300
What are the 2 big ideas of Baron de Montesquieu
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
300
What is the term for the following definition?
Dividing powers amongst constitutional bodies equally to check abuse of power and self-regulate the bodies to prevent autocracy. Ability to keep the other branches accountable
checks and balances
400
Which of these is not a Judeo-Christian Ethic?
Individual Worth
Inalienable Rights
Limited Government
Rule of Law
Justice
Personal Responsibility
Limited Government
400
Read this quote and tell me which idea from the Magna Carta it represents:
(39) No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions … except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land.”
Fair Trial
400
Read this quote and tell me which idea it best represents:
“That levying money for or to the use of the Crown … without grant of Parliament … is illegal”
No taxation without representation
400
What are the 3 Natural Rights that John Locke lists?
Life
Liberty
Property
400
What is the term for the following definition?
The constitutional allocation of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers among the three branches of government
separation of powers
500
Read this quote and tell me what Judeo-Christian Ethic this best represents:
“The most sacred of the duties of a
government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.”
- Thomas Jefferson, 1816
Justice
500
Read this quote and tell me which idea it best represents:
“(45) We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well.”
due process of Law
500
Read this quote and tell me which idea it best represents:
“And whereas of late years partial corrupt and unqualified persons have … served on juries in trials …”
Right to a speedy and fair trial
500
Read the quote and tell me which of Montesquieu's ideas it best represents:
“…Here then is the fundamental constitution of the government we are treating of. The legislative body being composed of two parts, they check one another by the mutual privilege of rejecting. They are both restrained by the executive power, as the executive is by the legislative…
To prevent this abuse, it is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.”
Checks and Balances
500
What is the term for the following definition?
A usually implicit agreement among the members of an organized society or between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each
social contract
600
Look at this table and tell me what Judeo-Christian Ethic this represents:
Rule of Law
600
read this quote and tell me which idea it best represents:
“(63) IT IS ACCORDINGLY OUR WISH AND COMMAND … that men in our kingdom shall have and keep all these liberties, rights, and concessions … in their fullness and entirety for them and their heirs … for ever”
Limited Government
600
What tradition did the English Bill of Rights create and inspire the Founders to believe in?
representative government
600
Read the quote and tell me which of Locke's ideas it best represents
“[W]hen the government is dissolved, the people are at liberty to provide for themselves by erecting a new legislative differing from the other by the change of persons, or form, or both, as they shall find it most for their safety and good”
Social Contract
600
What is the term for the following definition?
The idea that a government’s legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and lawful only when consented to or agreed to by the people over which that political power is exercised
consent of the governed