World History Vocab Quiz 10

This 16th-century monarch asserted his position as the head of the English Church with the Act of Supremacy

• Henry V

• Henry X

• Henry VII

This intellectual was a member of the French judiciary and wrote on the necessity of creating independent branches of government in order to help prevent an individual or group from wielding absolute state power

• Voltaire

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

This intellectual helped formulate the first set of theories which asserted the necessity of a state to prevent anarchy following the series of conflicts known as the English Civil War from 1642-1651

• James II

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

This intellectual loathed the combination of church and state arguing state-enforced religion led to persecution

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• James II

This intellectual asserted the human mind was a ‘blank slate’ in late-17th century England

• Thomas Hobbes

• Henry VII

• John Locke

These are a set of inherent liberties & protections granted to all people upon birth

• Natural Rights

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

This was the idea that states should be bound to a set of written rules & regulations, as deemed by the populace

• Social Contract Theory

• Consent of the Governed

• Constitutionalism

This was the idea that, in order to avoid absolutist tyranny, the powers of the state should be divided amongst executive, legislative, and judicial branches

• Divine Right of Kings

• Separation of Powers

• Religious Toleration

This was the concept that the state was dependent upon the compliance of the populace, and, furthermore, that the populace is obligated to reform or replace states that fail to protect basic individual rights

• Acts of Uniformity

• Social Contract Theory

• Consent of the Governed

This was the idea that human beings are, at least to a significant degree, selfish and aggressive, thus necessitating the existence of a sovereign authority (state) at the cost of specific, predetermined liberties to stave off anarchy

• Social Contract Theory

• Natural Rights

• Acts of Supremacy