Enlightenment Thinkers
the Author of Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This form of government involving everybody getting a say in decisions originated in Athens.
What is Direct Democracy?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man is related to which revolution?
What is the French Revolution?
The writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
English Advocate for women's rights.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
This form of government involves one person taking control (often illegally) and typically hold on to power using cruel tactics.
What is Tyranny?
The Declaration of independence is related to which Revolution?
What is the American Revolution?
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom became the basis for which future document?
What is the First Amendment?
Specifically the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause.
This English Writer of Leviathan believed that people were naturally wicked and a strong government was needed to keep order.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This form of government has a king or queen in charge.
What is a Monarchy?
"We hold these truths to be self evident..."
What is "That all men are created equal"?
Served in the House of Burgessess and Virginia General Assembly.
Who is George Mason?
This Frenchman Authored The Social Contract and believed that government was an agreement between ruler and people.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
This form of government rested its power in the hands of a small group of wealthy individuals.
What is an Oligarchy?
Which document is this quote from?
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..."
What is The Declaration of Independence?
Written in 1776 this document proclaims the rights of men including freedom of religion, freedom of the press, trial by jury, no cruel and unusual punishments, and a well regulated militia.
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
This Frenchman wrote about the importance of a separation of powers which later led to the system of checks and balances we have today.
Who is the Baron de Montesquieu
This form of Roman government involves one member of government representing a group of people.
What is a Republic?
Which Document is this quote from?
"The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of an. these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression"
What is The Declaration of the Rights of Man?
The Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom served as models for...
What is the Bill of Rights?