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- 3. The rights of “life, liberty, and property” that John Locke argued for.
- 5. Rome was the first to do this.
- 8. Wrote on and inspired the Separation of Church & State.
- 10. Signed prior to its landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- 11. A royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England.
- 14. An agreement by which people give up some freedoms for an organized society.
- 15. The separation of to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch.
- 16. The belief expressed in the Declaration of Independence that “just powers are derived from the consent of the government”.
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- 1. Document signed in 1689 that guaranteed the rights of English citizens.
- 2. Document signed by Charles I of England that further limited the powers of the English monarch.
- 4. Writer of the Virginia Declaration of Rights which help serve as a model/example for the U.S. Bill of Rights.
- 6. This pamphlet convinced many American colonists to support independence from Great Britain.
- 7. Enlightenment-era work by Thomas Hobbes in which he expresses his ideas on government.
- 9. Athens was the first to do this.
- 12. Wrote The Social Contract about the agreement between the people and the government.
- 13. The Main author of the Declaration of Independence.
