Classical Heritage
Polis, written constitution, civic participation, democratic principles, legislative bodies, and voting rights are all influences from this civilization.
What is Ancient Greece?
The idea that government power should be divided into separate parts.
What is separation of powers?
An agreement written in 1620 between the Pilgrims that created self-government and consent of the governed.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A tax on official documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
The day the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is July 4, 1776?
Both Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece share this influence.
What is civic participation?
An agreement among people to create a government.
What is a social contract?
A document written by Thomas Paine in 1776 that encouraged the colonists to break away from Great Britain and be a model of political independence to the rest of the world.
What is Common Sense?
A tax on paper, paint, glass, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
A word that means complaint.
What is a grievance?
Rule of law, republicanism, representative government, separation of powers and civic participation are all influences of this civilization.
What is Ancient Rome?
The philosopher that gave us natural law, natural rights, and social contract.
Who is John Locke?
A document written in 1215 that limited the King's power.
What is the Magna Carta?
The act that required colonists quarter soldiers in their homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
Name the Enlightenment philosopher that influenced this quote.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness".
Who is John Locke?
Ethical ideas of justice, rule of law, personal responsibility and individual worth are all influences from this civilization.
What is the Judeo-Christian tradition?
Life, liberty, and property.
What are natural rights?
A document written in 1689 that limited the English monarchy, outlawed taxation without representation, and gave English citizens the right to a trial by jury.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The main complaint of the colonists towards the British.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
One reason the colonists listed to explain why they wanted to declare independence.
What is
1. imposing taxes without consent
2. sending royal officials and colonists for trial in Britain
3. suspending trial by jury
4. refusing to assent to necessary laws
5. quartering soldiers in colonists' homes?
Rule of law was shared between these two ancient civilizations.
What is Ancient Rome and the Judeo-Christian tradition?
The French philosopher that gave us separation of powers.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
The idea that government gets its power/authority from the people. (hint: Mayflower Compact)
What is consent of the governed?
The British policy that
- closed the Boston harbor
- suspended the Massachusetts legislature
- dissolved colonial legislatures
- held trials for royal officials in Great Britain instead of in the colonies
What are the Intolerable Acts?
One of the following quotes reflects the principle of the right of resistance to a tyrannical government.
1. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
2. that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.--
3. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,--
4. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...
What is 4. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...?