Enlightenment
He believed all people were born with natural rights including life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
Written in 1215, this famous document was the very first to limit the power of the English King.
What is Magna Carta?
The Pilgrims signed this document in 1620 before stepping off their ship in Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Life, liberty, and property are collectively known by this two-word term.
What are Natural Rights?
This British act forced American colonists to provide housing, food, and supplies for British soldiers.
What is The Quartering Act?
He developed the idea of "separation of powers" to keep any one part of government from getting too strong.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
The Magna Carta established this core principle, meaning that everyone, even the king, must obey the law.
What is Rule of Law?
The Mayflower Compact is recognized as the first example of this type of government in the American colonies.
What is Self-Government?
Splitting the government into legislative, executive, and judicial branches is known as this principle.
What is Separation of Powers?
This act placed a direct tax on all printed materials in the colonies, including newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This concept by John Locke argues that people agree to be governed in exchange for the protection of their rights.
What is Social Contract?
This 1689 document expanded the rights of the English people and inspired the American document with the exact same name.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Thomas Paine wrote this widely read 1776 pamphlet to convince average colonists it was time to declare independence.
What is Common Sense?
This system ensures that each branch of government has the power to restrict the actions of the other two branches.
What are Checks and Balances?
This series of acts placed indirect taxes on imported goods like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Revenue Acts?
According to Montesquieu, a government’s power should be divided into this many branches.
What is 3?
The Magna Carta guaranteed this specific legal right to free men, meaning the government cannot put you in jail without a fair process.
What is Due Process?
The Mayflower Compact served as a social contract where colonists agreed to create and follow these for the "general good of the colony."
What are laws? (or rules)
The idea that government gets its power from the people it rules over is called "consent of the..." this.
What is The Governed?
Parliament passed these harsh laws to punish Boston specifically for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive Acts, or Intolerable Acts?
Enlightenment thinkers challenged the absolute power of these rulers, who believed their right to rule came directly from God.
Who are kings (or absolute monarchs)?
The English Bill of Rights prevented the king from passing new taxes without the consent of this British legislative body.
What is Parliament?
The Pilgrims realized they needed to draft the Mayflower Compact to govern themselves because their ship was blown off course and landed outside the legal boundaries of this English colony.
What is Virginia?
This concept describes a government that is not all-powerful and is heavily restricted by a constitution.
What is Limited Government?
Passed on the exact same day the Stamp Act was repealed, this act stated Parliament had total power to make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever."
What is the Declaratory Act?