SSCG2 unit review

Whose theories on government eventually became the foundation for the United States Constitution?

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  Charles Montesquieu

• 
  Thomas Hobbes

• 
  John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Which of the following is NOT a natural right according to John Locke?

• Pursuit of Happiness

• Liberty

• Life

• Property

What is a leviathan?

• mythical lava monster

• mythical sea creature

• Lance Dudley Hall

• a minion

Who used Locke’s ideology as a foundation for The Declaration of Independence?

• George Washington

  
  

• James Madison

  
  

• Thomas Jefferson

  
  

• Andrew Jackson

  
  

Rule of Law and Popular Sovereignty are political principles based on what philosophers work?

• 
  John Locke

• 
  Socrates

• 
  Isaac Newton

• 
  Jean Jacque Rousseau

The Magna Carta established that the power of the monarchy was not what?

• total

• 
  divine

• 
  absolute

• limited

Which of the following most accurately describes the Social Contract theory?

• When people agree to give up power to the state and maintain social order and in return would receive protection from the government

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  An agreement between God and citizens to protect a country form anarchy and chaos

• God gave rulers the right to run states

• States were patterned after the institution of the family

What book first promotes the idea of three branches of government, operating independently from one another with a system of checks and balances?

• 
  Leviathan

• The Social Contract

• The Spirit of the Laws

• 
  Two Treatises of Government

The Petition of Right challenged what theory?

• Plutarch's theory

• theory of relativity

• 
  absolute theory

• divine right theory

Which of the following does NOT describe the ideas of Baron de Montesquieu?

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  People have the right to create a government that secures power within one entity

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  Government should provide a system of checks and balances

• 
  Government should separate their powers

• 
  Government should be divided into 3 branches