Locke or Montesquieu
According to John Locke, what are your three natural rights?
Life, Liberty, Property
What idea do we get from Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
Self Government
Right to remain silent, Right to an attorney, right to a jury, right to know your charges are all known as what kind of rights?
Due Process Rights
Which was an example of taxation without representation?
A. The Stamp Act
B. The Massachusetts Government Act
C. The Boston Port Act
D. The Quartering Act.
A. The Stamp Act.
This philosopher's ideas were taken by Thomas Jefferson to create the Declaration of Independence.
John Locke
The Mayflower Compact establishes ideas of Self Government and what?
Consent of the governed.
Campaign documentation has to show how campaign funds are spent. What is this an example of.
A. Due Process
B. Freedom of speech
C. Government Transparency
D. Checks and Balances.
C. Government Transparency.
According the the Declaration of Independence, whose responsibiltity is it to secure the people's natural rights?
A. The government
B. The Governed.
C. The Church
D. The voters.
A. The government.
Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances come from which philosopher
Montesquieu
Which document first placed a check on a monarch's absolute rule?
The Magna Carta
Which is not a principle of rule of law?
A. Arbitrary sentencing
B. Equal protection under the law
C. Government transparency
D. Accountability to the law.
A. Arbitrary sentencing
Whose ideas of natural law and the social contract influenced the Declaration of Independence?
A. Thomas Hobbes.
B. John Locke
C. Baron de Montesquieu
D. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B. John Locke.
This is the agreement that the government will protect the people in exchange for some of their freedom.
Social Contract.
The English Bill of Rights is meant to protect citizens from ________ without representation and from excessive ____________.
Taxation and punishment
What is a characteristic of a society under the rule of law?
A. Citizens are at liberty to act without any restraint
B. All citizens and officials are subject to the same rules.
C. Officials are free to follow their private judgment
D. The Ruler can takes whatever steps he or she feels are necessary.
B. All citizens and officials are subject to the same rules.
Which of the following was not an event that pushed the colonist towards independence?
A. Stamp Act
B. Quartering Act.
C. Declaratory Act
D. The Revolutionary War
What was Thomas Paine's purpose for writing Common Sense?
A. that the colonies remain loyal to Great Britain
B. that the colonies should pay more taxes to Great Britain
C. That the colonies fight for independence
D. That the colonies wage war against the French.
C.
What two ideas do we get from the Magna Carta?
Limitation of government
Due Process
Which option best describes the important of the rule of law?
A. Allows Police to keep evidence a secret during a trial
B. Exempts government leaders from having to following procedures.
C. Protects citizens from arbitrary and abusive acts of government power.
D. Ensures different laws can be applied to people of different social classes.
C. Protects citizens from arbitrary and abusive acts of government power.
Why did Thomas Paine write Common Sense?
A. To convince colonist to remain loyal to Great Britain
B. To persuade colonist to declare independence from Great Britain.
C. To encourage colonist to settle west of the Appalachians.
D. to support colonist going to war with France
B. To persuade the colonist to declare independence from Great Britain.