Principles in Action
The people hold the ultimate power in government.
What is popular sovereignty?
The Magna Carta was signed in this year.
What is 1215?
The Mayflower Compact was signed in this year.
What is 1620?
This 1689 document gave English citizens rights like free speech in Parliament.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This Enlightenment woman wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), arguing that women deserve equal education and opportunities.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
Everyone, including leaders, must follow the law.
What is the rule of law?
The Magna Carta limited the power of this king.
Who was King John?
The Mayflower Compact was an agreement to form this kind of government.
What is self-government?
The English Bill of Rights limited the power of this system of government.
What is the monarchy?
Believed government powers should be divided into branches.
Who was Montesquieu?
Government powers are divided among three branches.
What is separation of powers?
This principle from the Magna Carta influenced the U.S.: even rulers must obey the law.
What is the rule of law?
The phrase “We the People” is rooted in this Mayflower principle.
What is consent of the governed?
The right to petition the government and bear arms came from this document.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
French philosopher who supported freedom of speech and religion.
Who was Voltaire?
Each branch can limit the power of the others.
What are checks and balances?
This group of nobles forced King John to sign the Magna Carta.
Who were the English barons?
The Mayflower Compact is considered the first example of this type of agreement in the New World.
What is a social contract?
Limiting government power helps protect these.
What are individual rights?
Believed in a “social contract” between people and government
Who was Rousseau?
Power is shared between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
The Magna Carta introduced the right to a fair trial by this group of peers.
What is a jury?
The Pilgrims wrote the Compact because they landed outside the authority of this territory?
What is Virginia? or (They landed outside of the Virginia Company)
The philosopher who argued for “natural rights” of life, liberty, and property.
Who was John Locke?
Enlightenment ideas inspired this U.S. document written in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?