Important Figures
They are credited with the idea of social contract and also argued for liberty, religious tolerance and rights to life and property.
Who is John Locke?
A document created in 1215 that the English people forced King John to sign.
What is the Magna Carta?
Jefferson modified the three natural rights conjured by Locke into ________________
What is life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?
The 3 branches of the Separation of Powers.
What is Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
What concerned the legitimacy of the authority a state/governments had over an individual. It also intended to exclude the consent of the people from being one just foundation of government where it has place
What are Social Contracts?
They were a key figure in the American Enlightenment, which saw major breakthroughs in science and ideas of political republicanism.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
List of rights made by Parliament that King William had to accept to become the monarchy
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Natural law first appeared in ancient Rome philosophy, and was primarily accredited to which Roman philosopher
Who is Cicero?
The President of the United States is in this branch
What is the Executive branch?
These documents can be traced back and considered the earliest writing of Social Contracts? They are heavily drawn upon the ideals of philosopher Plato.
What is Glaucon In the Republic, Book 3 and Crito?
This person is considered the ‘father of empiricism’ for their work and advocacy of scientific method and methodical scientific inquiry in investigating scientific phenomena.
Who is Francis Bacon?
This document includes rights that are not given to them by the government and cannot be taken away from them. It draws heavily on the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This Jefferson anti-slavery statement was removed from the final draft of the Declaration of Independence.
What is "All Men Are Created Equal"?
This which branch of government can override a Presidential Veto?
What is the legislative branch?
This Enlighten men believed that “the state of nature was one in which there were no enforceable criteria of right and wrong. Each person took for himself all that he could; human life was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
They are famous for their articulation of the theory of separation of powers, which is implemented in many constitutions throughout the world.
Who is Montesquieu?
This document embodied the ideas of social contracts and popular sovereignty in the very beginning of the key document.
What is the US constitution?
This writer's experience highlighted the need for natural rights, specifically, freedom of the press.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
He quotes “The political liberty, of the subject, (separation of powers), is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of [their] safety. In order to have this liberty. It is requisite the government be so constituted as one [person] need not be afraid of another."
Who is Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws?
Thomas Hobbes lived through what moment in history that would later influence him? This conflict in the most general of terms, it was a clash between the King and his supporters, the Monarchists.
What is the English Civil War?
This thinker did not believe in any single religion, and did not believe that one was needed to believe in God. Instead, they were very interested in the natural laws that were underlying in all religions.
Who is Voltaire?
This was the most influential publication of the Enlightenment compiled by Diderot d'Alembert and a team of 150 scientists and philosophers. It helped spread the ideas of the Enlightenment across Europe and beyond
What is the Encyclopédie?
Thomas Paine further elaborated on natural rights in this influential work
What is the "Rights of Man"?
A collection of 85 articles/essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution.
What is the Federalist Papers?
What group of people used this theory in an important document that changed America, and is still used today? This group of people led the American Revolution against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
What are the Founding Fathers?