Civics EOC 1

Which Enlightenment thinker argued that all people were born equal and had natural rights to life, liberty, and property?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

This is the idea that "the people" give the government power to protect their natural rights and must live by the rules?

• Separation of Powers

• Social Contract

• Checks and Balances

• Rule of Law

Montesquieu is most known for his ideas on?

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

• Separation of Powers

• Protection of life, liberty and property

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

• Common Law

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

• Magna Carta

A government document that limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility: written by English Nobles in 1215.

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

• English Bill of Rights

Consent of the governed is based on which Enlightenment idea?

• Rousseau's Divine Rights

• John Locke's Social Contract

• Montisquieu's Separation of Powers

• Madison's individual liberty Madison's individual liberty

The signing of the Magna Carta was important because...

• It limited the powers of the King for the first time.

• It provide for separation of powers.

• It provided for separation of church and state.

• It showed the dukes that the King was ultimate power.

What is the significance of the English Bill of Rights to the US Constitution?

• the Declaration of Independence was modeled after it the Declaration of Independence was modeled after it

• it served as a model for America’s Bill of Rights

• it was the first official written set of laws for England

• it was necessary in the development of the Preamble

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1. Identify who's Enlightenment idea is this: Separation of Powers?

• Montesquieu’s 
• Locke’s 

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1. Identify who's Enlightenment idea is this: Social Contract?

• Montesquieu’s 
• Locke’s