Pre-Declaration History
This British monarch was in power from 1760 - 1820.
Who was King George III?
The three authorities cited by the First Continental Congress as entitling them to "life, liberty, and property" were the principles of the English Constitution, several charters or compacts, and what?
What are the immutable laws of nature (or the nature law)?
The Declaration of Independence can be compared to what sacrament?
What is marriage?
This saint stated that by nature the law is written on the hearts of all men.
Who is St. Paul?
While a duty is an obligation we owe to others, this is a claim we have to keep something we have or receive something someone else owes us.
What is a right?
Democratic government in this ancient location meant that one faction of the people ruled over another?
What was Athens?
The principle that WHAT cannot be imposed on a nation without representative consent was embodied in the relationship between Parliament and the King of Great Britain from the Middle Ages?
What are taxes?
Of these charges, which one was NOT made against King George in the Declaration of Independence?
1) Refusing to pass laws for the colonies unless they would relinquish their right to representation in the legislature.
2) Making judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices.
3) Erecting a multitude of new offices to harass the colonists.
4) Establishing the Church of England as the official religion of the colonies?
What was establishing the Church of England as the official religion of the colonies?
The Bible claims that the Declaration's self-evident truths can be known by this as well as by faith.
What is reason?
This philosopher stated that man is a rational animal, and as such, was also a social and political animal.
Who was Aristotle?
In April of 1775, battles at these two Massachusetts locations effectively started the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This foreign body declared in 1766 its right to make laws for the colonies.
What is the British Parliament?
The Declaration refers to God as Nature's God, Creator, Supreme Judge of the World, and Who?
Who is Divine Providence?
This Congregationalist President remarked in a 1924 address that the principle of equality "follows inevitably from belief in the brotherhood of man through the fatherhood of God."
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
This man stated that governments are formed by consent, that is, by each man agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community.
Who was John Locke?
This leader of Athens stated that "Our constitution...favors the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy."
Who was Pericles?
This body declared in 1774 that the colonies had never ceded their rights to dispose of life, liberty, and property without their consent.
What was the First Continental Congress?
In the Declaration, Congress asserted that separation from Great Britain was a necessity because the present King of Great Britain was intending to establish and absolute what over the American States?
What was Tyranny?
This Catholic Cardinal stated in the 17th century that power resides "immediately in the whole state, for this power is by Divine law, but Divine law gives this power to no particular man, therefore, Divine law gives this power to the collected body."
Who was Cardinal Robert Bellarmine?
Jefferson may have learned the doctrines that 1) there is a higher law that all governments must obey, and 2) that all men are equal under natural law, from what man?
Who was Cicero?
This event of 1688 made the British Parliament superior to the King.
What was the Glorious Revolution?
The Massachusetts' legislature was suspended as part of these in 1774.
What were the Coercive Acts (or the Intolerable Acts)?
"We hold these truths to be WHAT: That all men are WHAT equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are WHAT, WHAT, and WHAT.
What is self-evident, created, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
The three "great immunities" of 1) man is the proper subject of the natural law, 2) liberty instampt on man's rational nature, and 3) equality amongst men, were identified by which colonial minister?
Who was John Wise?
David Hume found the principles of 1) the government's source of power is in the consent of the people, and 2) the lawfulness of resisting tyrants, in the writing of what man?
Who was Algernon Sydney?