Who is It?
representative democracy; believed that the government could be replaced
John Locke
Showed his desire for direct democracy
The Social Contract
The first draft of the Declaration of Independence was written in
June 1776
Chaos
Anarchy
Rule By the People
Democracy
believed in Divine Right
Thomas Hobbes
Laid out the plan for separation of powers and checks and balances in a democracy
The Spirit of the Laws
________ __________ is known as the main writer of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
No one is above the law, no one is below the law.
Everyone is held accountable to the law.
Rule of law
The orderly body of a nation
government
Separation of Powers
Charles de Montesquieu
Without Government control, man's life would be nasty, brutish, and short
Leviathan
The _____ _____is the chief executive in a parliamentary democracy
Prime Minister
Document that established the first example of limited government
Magna Carta
the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
Law
The Social Contract
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Stated How man lived by natural law and government could be replaced
Two Treatises of Government
_____ _____ is also known as a republic
Representative Democracy
Give an example of a communist country
North Korea
Cuba
Vietnam
Laos
the study or creation of theories about basic things such as the nature of existence, knowledge, and thought, or about how people should live.
Philosophy
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
stated why the colonies should separate from England
Common Sense
We hold....
These Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal with unalienable rights; life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Document that established civil rights for the English people signed in 1628
Petition of Right
individual rights protected by law from unjust governmental or other interference.
Civil Liberties