John Locke
John Locke's idea of the savage and difficult existence before the creation of government and society.
What is the State of Nature?
What is an Autocracy?
A type of government where people directly vote on issues.
This document was created in England to limit the power of the King and create rights for the barons.
What is the Magna Carta?
This Founding Father wrote the Decleration of Independence and was heavily influenced by John Locke and his Natural Rights of Life, Liberity and Property.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
People exchange some freedom for security provided by the government.
What is the Social Contract?
A system where a few people hold all the power.
What is an Oligarchy?
A system of government where the central or national government has all the power and controls the local governments.
What is the unitary system?
It was created in 1689 and guaranteed rights to trial by jury and freedom of speech in England.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The U.S. Bill of Rights was heavily influenced by this similarly named doument that was written in 1689.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Life, Liberty, and Property.
A system of government where the people hold political power.
What is Democracy?
What is representative democracy?
This document written by Thomas Paine laid out the argument that the colonies should declare independence from Great Britain.
What is Common Sense?
English documents that limited executive power and expanded certain rights and protections and those documents heavily influenced the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
What are the English Bill of Rights and Magna Carta?
Where Locke believed that government power comes from.
What is the consent of the governed?
A type of autocracy where the leader controls all aspects of your life.
What is a dictatorship?
A SYSTEM of government where regional/state governments share power and have sovereign powers.
What is the Federal System?
This document was the first example of a written constitution in North America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
John Locke's democratic concepts of; consent of the governed and social contract are found throughout this document, and was an example for the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Mayflower Compact
John Locke believed that people had the right to do this ______ if the government was infringing on their natural rights.
What is overthrow?
A system of government ruled by a king or queen that can be an autocracy, democracy, or oligarchy.
What is Monarchy?
A system where the regional/state governments are more powerful than the central governments.
What is a confederation?
The signing of this document is an excellent example of the creation of a social contract.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The United States' system of government where the states and national government are both soverign and share power.
What is Federalism?