Enlightenment Thinkers
This Enlightenment thinker wrote about people having God-given, or natural rights that no government should be able to take away. Among these are life, liberty and to own property.
Who was John Locke?
This religion is the oldest known monotheistic religion in the world. It influenced our founding fathers with ideas such as natural law, equality, justice, and personal responsibility.
What is Judaism?
This is the type of democracy that was practiced in Ancient Greece. Citizens voted directly on laws in their city-states.
What is a Direct Democracy?
Because of Ancient Rome's large population, they used this form of government. Under this government, citizens vote for a smaller group of leaders to represent them when making laws
What is a republic, representative democracy or representative government?
This type of government is a government for the people by the people.
What is democracy?
This French Enlightenment thinker influenced the Framers of our Constitution to separate power across 3 branches; judicial, executive and legislative branches. These branches also have check and balance power over each other.
Who was Baron de Montesquieu?
This is the belief that beyond human laws, there is a universal set of moral rules that can be applied to any culture or system of justice. This idea has influenced Jewish, Greek, Roman, and Christian thinkers.
What is natural law?
This was largest polis (city-state) of the Ancient Greek empire.
What is Athens?
After the plebeians, poor people of Ancient Rome, fought for political equality, they got their wish that all laws be written down for all to see AND to hold leaders accountable. This is the name of those written laws.
What are the Twelve Tables?
The idea that no one is above the law is called this..
What is the rule of law?
John Locke had these three items has his natural rights: life, liberty and ____?
What is property?
The term monotheism means that the religion believes in this many gods.
What is one?
Ancient Athens established the idea that those people who were legally recognized person of a political area (town, state, country..) were called this. Even though women were this, only men could vote.
What is a citizen?
Ancient Rome is credited with developing this in their government. This is when power is divided across more than one branch of government.
This idea of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke is that the people of a country agree to give up some freedoms in order to establish a government, as long as the government protects the people and keep order.
What is a social contract?
This intellectual movement of the 1600s and 1700s was a time when authors would stress the value of science and reason for studying the natural world and improving society and government. Two important thinkers of this period were John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu
What was the Enlightenment?
Some core beliefs ancient Judaism are that every man is equal, each of us have personal responsibilities for our reactions and one other idea. This idea states that no man is above the law.
What is the Rule of Law?
Direct Democracy, used by the Ancient Greeks, influenced some of the first townships in Colonial America. One of these townships were set up by this group of people; who later had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner with the Native Americans
Who were the pilgrims?
When leaders and law makers are elected by citizens, these leaders should make laws that benefit who.
Who is all citizens?
The principle that the people are the ultimate source of the authority and legitimacy of a government; in other words, the government received consent from its people to run the way it does.
What is popular sovereignty?
This Founding Father borrowed John Locke's ideas of Natural Rights (Life, liberty and property) when he wrote in the Declaration of Independence 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Judaism belief in a natural law among men influenced John Locke and Thomas Jefferson to write about these. Examples of these are life, liberty, pursuit of happiness or property ownership.
What are natural rights?
A system of direct democracy works with a ______ population of citizens because each person's vote is counted and laws could be passed in a reasonable time. Answer 'small', 'large' or 'any'
What is a small population?
By writing their laws down in the 12 Tables, it established this type of political system in which government powers are restricted, usually by a written constitution.
What is limited government?
A refusal to buy goods from or conduct business with a person, organization, or country as a form of protest. Colonists did this in response to the Stamp Act.
What is boycott?