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Bill of Rights
100
  • A strong advocate of education for women

Mary Wollstonecraft

100
  • Abolishment of torture

Cesare Beccaria

100
  • Separation of Church and State

Voltaire

100

Monarch

King or Queen

100

Right to bear arms

2nd Amendment

200
  • Separation of powers

Montesquieu

200
  • Believed in the rights to life, liberty, and property 

Locke

200

Right to rule

Sovereignty

200
  • Believed people should give up their rights to gain law and order.

Hobbes
200

Freedom of the press

1st Amendment

300
  • Believed in a direct democracy under the government and freely formed by the people.

Rosseau

300

Believed that if government wasn’t doing a good job, people should overthrow it.

Locke
300
  • Best government is one where rulers have total power to keep their people under control

Hobbes

300
  • Punishment should fit the crime

Beccaria

300

Creates a parliament

Magna Carta

400

I am the Sun.

Louis XIV

400
  • Speedy trial

Beccaria

400

Right to rule comes from God

Divine Right

400
  • Checks & Balances

Montesquieu

400

Right to remain silent and not testify against oneself

5th Amendment

500
  • Individual Rights like Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion

Voltaire

500

Cut off beards if nobles did not pay a tax.

Peter the Great

500
  • Urged women to enter male dominated careers of medicine and politics

Wollstonecraft

500
  • All people are equal and titles of nobility should be abolished.

Rosseau


500

Government cannot take property without a trial

4th Amendment