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This Enlightenment Thinker believed in Natural Law.
Who is John Locke?
100
This document limited the King’s power and stated no new taxes without consent and granted trial by jury.
What is Magna Carta?
100
The Founding Fathers adopted this right from Magna Carta, and it allows you to be judged by your peers.
What is a trial by jury?
100
Allows for two paths to citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
100
Rule by the people.
What is Democracy?
200
This Enlightenment Thinker believed in the Separation of Power.
Who is Montesquieu?
200
This document was written after the Glorious Revolution, and asserts Parliament’s supremacy over the King and guarantees individual rights.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
200
The Founding Fathers adopted this right from the English Bill of Rights, and it became one of the basic First Amendment freedoms.
What is a Freedom of Speech?
200
Five Years Residence/”Good Character”/History & Government Test/Oath of Allegiance.
What is the Naturalization Process?
200
Rule by one person.
What is Autocracy?
300
This King was forces to sign the Magna Carta.
Who is King John?
300
Everyone who signed this document agreed to form and obey their own government, and it was signed before anyone went ashore.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
300
This idea came from Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights, and the colonists used it to protest English taxes.
What is “No taxation without consent?”
300
This right means to “bring the prisoner before the court, charge them, or release them!”
What is Habeas Corpus?
300
The book in which a certain Enlightenment Thinker published his idea of Separation of Power.
What is the Spirit of the Laws?
400
This group of left England to seek Religious freedom.
Who are the Pilgrims?
400
This book argued that the colonies should govern themselves.
What is Common Sense?
400
Together, these rights make up the Natural, or, “God Given,” rights.
What are life, freedom, and the right to own property?
400
In this system of government, power and leadership are hereditary.
What is Monarchy?
400
The Founding Fathers were influenced by an Enlightenment Thinker to separate government into these three branches .
What are legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
500
This King attempted to ignore Magna Carta and disband Parliament, but was run out of England.
Who is King James II?
500
This book described the Social Contract and how it relates to Natural Law.
What is Two Treaties of Government?
500
In his book, Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should have the right to do this.
What is self-government?
500
This system of government has a powerful central system that does not share power.
What is a Unitary system of government?
500
In this system, the central government gets its power from the individual states.
What is a confederal, confederation, or confederacy?