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30 Cards in this Set
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Colonists wanted what?
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Seats in parliament
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What two documents did the colonists cite?
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Magna Carta and Petition of Rights
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Who advocated the Boston Tea Party?
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Samuel Adams
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Leader of french troops:
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Marquis Lafayette
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State holds all sovereignty except the four:
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declare war, enter into treaties, coin money, call up militia
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In the constitution, the central power holds only the power
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listed in the constitution
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Who influenced a separation of powers?
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Montesquieu
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What is the old regime?
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kings and nobles having all power
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Montesquieu said what?
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Government powers should be in judicial, legislative, and executive.
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Who was openly against absolutism?
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Voltaire
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Who wrote Letters on the English?
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Voltaire
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
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Voltaire
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Rousseu's ideas were patterned after:
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John Locke
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Who wrote the Social Contract?
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Rousseau
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"Man is born free and every where he is in chains" said by: and known as:
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Rousseau; society
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Who said the only good government was one formed by the people and guided by "general will"?
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Rousseau
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Who believed in Majority Rules?
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Rousseau
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Who was the editor of the Encyclopedia?
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Diderot
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Encyclopedia articles attacked:
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old regime, church, unjust taxation, divine right absolutism
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Who wrote the Leviathan?
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Thomas Hobbes
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Hobbes believed that all humans were naturally ___.
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evil and selfish
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Who said people gave up their rights to a strong ruler to ensure law and order?
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Hobbes
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Two Treatises of Government compared what?
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absolutism and constitutional monarchy
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"life, liberty, property"
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John Locke
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Said people can't revolt, but can protest.
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Hobbes
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Said people can revolt:
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John Locke
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Locke influenced:
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Jefferson, framers of the constitution, Rousseau
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"all men are created equal" "are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights" "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness"
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Thomas Jefferson
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""deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
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Thomas Jefferson
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"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, or institute a new government."
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Thomas Jefferson
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