Foundations of Government
This Enlightenment thinker was known for his idea of Natural Rights.
Who is John Locke?
This document has the quote that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is the idea that the government gets its power from the people and if the government does not protect the people's rights, then they can revolt against that government.
What is the Social Contract?
This is how many amendments the Bill of Rights covers.
What is 10 Amendments?
This type of government allows people to directly vote on the laws themselves.
What is Democracy?
This is the idea that the law will be clear and fair and that the government and its leaders are subject to it as is everyone in the society.
What is the Rule of Law?
This document is the basis of all United States national law.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The Constitution instituted this type of government where the people vote on their representatives.
What is a Republic?
This amendment includes freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the ability to peaceful protest the government.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This Enlightenment thinker wrote a book entitled The Social Contract and argued that people were born absolutely free.
Who is Rousseau?
This culture placed a high emphasis on citizen participation in the government.
What is the Greco-Roman culture?
In his Philosophical Dictionary, this thinker puts forward the idea of religious freedom.
Who is Voltaire?
This agreement decided that the House of Representatives would be based on population of a state and the Senate would be based on equal representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
This amendment protects U.S. citizens from unlawful searches and seizures of their property without a warrant signed by a judge.
What is the 4th Amendment?
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
Which Enlightenment thinker was known for the idea of separation of powers?
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This document was the original constitution of the United States and created a national government who was too weak to be effective.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The phrase in the Constitution "We the people of the United States... do ordain the Constitution," most closely relates to this political idea.
What is the Social Contract?
This amendment states that citizens have the right to "bear arms."
What is the 2nd Amendment?
John Adams was known for pushing this major political idea during the Revolutionary Period.
What is Checks and Balances?
Plato's book The Republic deals with this idea about government.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This document enshrined the idea of the Rule of Law and Due Process by stating the king and all his royal officials are held accountable by the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This American political thinker supported strong state governments and wanted the federal government's power to be limited.
This is the term for housing military personnel in your personal home without your consent.
What is Quartering?
This is what was meant by certain unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence?
What is certain rights that can never be taken away?