Ancient Influence
The first direct democracy was in this ancient city-state.
What is Athens?
John Locke stated “life, liberty, and property” are these.
What are Natural Rights?
Barons in 1215 presented this document to King John.
What is the Magna Carta?
This was a powerful group of 6 Native American tribes that governed themselves together, while maintaining independence.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
The three branches of the Roman Republic were the Consuls, Assembly, and this.
What is the Senate?
Ancient Rome was the first place to have one of these governments.
What is Republic?
This man came up with the idea that there should be checks and balances when it comes to power.
Who is Charles de Montesquieu?
According the the English Bill of Rights this is who is responsible for for approving (or consenting to) lawmaking in England.
What is Parliament?
This founder was inspired by the union the Iroquois Confederacy formed.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The word "Iroquois" translates to "people of the" this.
What is "longhouse?"
This class made up the majority of the ruling class in Rome.
Who are Patricians?
The idea that citizens need to give up some of their freedom to guarantee protection from their government is called this.
What is the Social Contract?
According the the Magna Carta, no person is allowed to be convicted of a crime without evidence or this.
What is a witness?
Within the Iroquois Confederacy, these people were able to choose and remove leaders.
Who are clan mothers?
This idea is that if a government fails to uphold their part of the social contract, citizens have the right to revolt or change the government.
What is the consent of the governed?
This group of individuals were not considered full citizens in Ancient Rome and Ancient Athens.
Who are Women?
She believed women should have equal civil rights and access to education.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
The English Bill of Rights protects citizens from excessive bail and "cruel and unusual" this.
What is punishment?
Unlike the U.S. Constitution, the Iroquois Confederacy's rule of law was this.
What is unwritten?
These two Enlightenment thinkers have very different beliefs: one believes people are born cruel and evil, while the other believes people are born good.
Who are John Locke and Thomas Hobbes?
The Panel of Magistrates is a branch of this type of government.
What is Athenian Democracy?
This man believes that men are enemies because we believe everything belongs to us and this causes competition.
Thomas Hobbes
Both the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights protect citizens' rights when they are "in the law" or this.
What is arrested or in court?
The Iroquois Confederacy's constitution was called this.
What is the Great Law of Peace?
This country’s government has been influenced by ancient governments, British governments, and Native American governments.
What is the United States?