SS.7.C.1.1 and 2

What idea did Thomas Hobbes, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and John Locke popularize?

• social contract

• checks and balances

• separation of powers

• rule of law

What did the Founding Fathers probably think of the Enlightenment Thinkers?

• Their ideas were important that they used them in The Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights.

• Their ideas were important because they confirmed the power of the King and Parliament of England.

• Their ideas went against the views of most colonists, so they were mostly ignored by the Founding Fathers.

• Their ideas influenced the Founding Fathers to write the Magna Carta, limiting the power of the king.

Choose ALL the ideas the Founding Fathers took from Montesquieu.

• Branches of gov: legislative, executive, and judicial

• Separation of powers: each part of gov. has its own distinct capabilities

• Rule of law: everyone must follow the laws

• Checks and balances: each branch can limit the power of the other branches, so no one branch becomes too powerful.

Choose each idea that connects to John Locke.

• social contract

• self-governemnt

• natural rights

• checks and balances

What do the Enlightenment thinkers believe citizens should do if the government doesn't protect their natural rights, thus breaking the social contract?

• They MUST rebel and put in a new government.

• They need to switch to a monarchy with a king to control them.

• They should make a new contract with the government.

• They are required to give up their citizenship.

a pamphlet published by Thomas Paine in 1776 to convince the American colonists to support becoming independent from England

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

a government document that expanded the powers of the English Parliament and expanded the rights of the people, as well as further limited the rights of the king; written by the members of the English Parliament in 1689

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

a government document that limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility; written by the English nobles in 1215

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

an agreement between individuals that created a government that would provide order and protect the rights of the colonists; written by a group of English Puritans in Massachusetts in 1620

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

popular or representative system where the people create and run their own government

• limited government

• rights

• due process

• rule of law

• self-government