Unit 2 Test: Foundations of American Government

Written by Thomas Jefferson and led to separation of church and state and served as a model for the 1st Amendment.

• D. Social Contract

• B. English Bill of Rights

• A. Leviathan

• F. Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

• C. Checks & Balances

Document signed by Charles I of England that further limited the powers of the English monarch.

• H. Petition of Right

• A. Leviathan

• B. English Bill of Rights

• C. Checks & Balances

• D. Social Contract

Enlightenment-era work by Thomas Hobbes in which he expresses his ideas on government.

• E. Virginia Declaration of Rights

• A. Leviathan

• D. Social Contract

• B. English Bill of Rights

• C. Checks & Balances

An agreement by which people give up some freedoms for an organized society.

• E. Virginia Declaration of Rights

• C. Checks & Balances

• B. English Bill of Rights

• A. Leviathan

• D. Social Contract

Document written by George Mason and served as a model/example for the U.S. Bill of Rights.

• E. Virginia Declaration of Rights

• A. Leviathan

• C. Checks & Balances

• B. English Bill of Rights

• D. Social Contract

Montesquieu's plan of a separation of to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch.

• C. Checks & Balances

• D. Social Contract

• A. Leviathan

• B. English Bill of Rights

• E. Virginia Declaration of Rights

Document signed in 1689 that guaranteed the rights of English citizens.

• D. Social Contract

• C. Checks & Balances

• E. Virginia Declaration of Rights

• A. Leviathan

• B. English Bill of Rights

In Ancient Greece, Athens had the first ___ which greatly influenced the US government.

• Republic

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

Ancient Rome set up a ___ where citizens elected representatives to the Senate to rule.

• Dictatorship

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Republic

According to John Locke, which rights were guaranteed by natural law?

• Trial by jury and no cruel punishments

• Freedom of speech and the press

• Life, liberty, and property

• Freedom of worship and the right to petition