Ancient Influences
This ancient civilization developed the idea of direct democracy.
What is Ancient Greece?
This document, signed by King John in 1215, limited the power of the king.
What is the Magna Carta?
Britain imposed this tax on printed materials such as newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
This movement emphasized reason, science, and individual rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
This principle means people rule themselves through elected representatives.
What is self-government?
In this type of government, citizens elect representatives to make decisions.
What is a republic?
This principle guarantees that the government must follow fair legal procedures before punishing a person.
What is due process?
This event occurred when colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This philosopher believed people are born with natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
The legislative, executive, and judicial branches resulted from this Enlightenment idea.
What is separation of powers?
This religious tradition taught that all people have worth and dignity.
What is Christianity?
This agreement was signed aboard a ship by Pilgrims and established self-government in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This act required colonists to house and support British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
Locke identified these three natural rights.
What are life, liberty, and property?
According to Locke, citizens have this right if a government violates their natural rights.
What is the right to overthrow or change the government?
Romans developed this legal principle stating that laws should apply equally to everyone.
What is rule of law?
Thomas Paine wrote this influential pamphlet that persuaded colonists to support independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
These laws punished Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party and became known by a very negative nickname in the colonies.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This idea states that people agree to give government limited power in exchange for protection of their rights.
What is the social contract?
This principle states that government receives its power from the people.
What is consent of the governed?
This Greek concept emphasizes each city having autonomy
Polis
This Document served to introduce a new queen to England and established rights for most Englishmen
English Bill of Rights
Colonists protested these acts because they believed Parliament had no right to tax them without representation.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This philosopher developed the idea of separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
This Enlightenment idea is most clearly seen when the Declaration states that people can alter or abolish an unjust government.
What is the social contract?