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Ancient Greece/Ancient Rome
Democratic Principles
Enlightenment
Documents of Democracy
Miscellaneous
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Plato believed that a tyrant can become dangerous because of this reason.
What is a tyrant has too much freedom to rule?
100
Ancient Greece was responsible for developing this different type of government that made councils instead of absolute rulers.
What is democracy?
100
Ancient Greek philosophers promoted democracy by advocating people to think using these skills.
What is logic and reason?
100
The American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen are both the same in emphasizing this.
What are the rights of the individual?
100
"He who trusts any man with supreme power gives it to a wild beast, for such his appetite sometimes makes him: passion influences those in power, even the best of men, but law is reason without desire…" -Aristotle Write what you believe the meaning of the quote is.
What is ?????
200
Ancient Greek word for a person who took over a government.
What is a tyrant?
200
According to the Greek philosophers, the ruler shares their power with ...
What is the people?
200
John Locke's natural rights.
What is life, liberty, and property?
200
The American Declaration of Independence refers to rights that can't be taken away that are called this.
What are the "unalienable rights"?
200
This document established a representative government, gave people the right to complain to the king or queen in Parliament.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
300
In Ancient Greece, natural laws can be found using this skill.
What is reason?
300
The idea that the government gets its power from the people who have the right to choose their own form government.
What is popular sovereignty/social contract?
300
This agreement is made between the government and the people; the government must protect the rights of the people or the people have the right to change that government.
What is the social contract theory?
300
This document was not approved but became a heavy influence for later documents of democracy by establishing precedents for the rights of the accused through the "due process of law".
What is the Magna Carta?
300
In Judeo-Christian tradition, helping others in need was the responsibility of this part of society.
Who is all people in society?
400
The structures of the Ancient Greek governments and the Ancient Roman governments differed in that Greece had a ________ and Rome had a ___________ as their form of government.
What is a direct democracy and an indirect democracy/republic?
400
American colonists felt they had the right to this because of England's long history of democracy.
What is self-government (popular sovereignty)?
400
The U.S. Constitution directly reflects the enlightenment views of Baron de Montesquieu in this way.
What is the 3 branches of government/separation of powers?
400
Laws are made and carried out by a group that acts for the people is the idea a representative government as established in this document.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
400
Ancient Roman written laws of democratic principles of justice and reason.
What is the twelve tables?
500
This was the main daily activity/function of an Ancient Greek philosopher.
What is thinking reasonably about natural laws?
500
A political system in which representatives are chosen by the people.
What is a republic?
500
John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau influenced Simon Bolivar to do this in Latin America.
What is lead democratic revolutions?
500
The U.S. Bill of Rights borrowed provisions in from the Magna Carta and is similar in regards to this enlightenment idea.
What is the "due process of law"?
500
Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions are both similar in that they emphasize this in their societies.
What is individual choice?