Unit 1 Test
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- Rights and Responsibilities
- Dalln H. Oaks
- Rights and Responsibilities
- We shouldn't have to legislate everything. We should trust public virtue.
- Second Treatise on Civil Government
- John Locke
- Second Treatise on Civil Government
- Government exists by the consent of the people. This heavily influenced the Declaration of Independence.
- A Treatise of Human Nature
- David Hume
- A Treatise of Human Nature
- Although people have the right to revolt when their government is doing wrong, they shouldn't revolt over the little things.
- Mayflower Compact
- Written by puritans coming to America.
- Mayflower Compact
- A prime example of people coming together to create a social contract.
- Little Speech on Liberty
- John Winthrop 1645
- Little Speech on Liberty
- Natural liberty is best for the person, but civil liberty is still important for the community.
- A Model of Christian Charity
- John Winthrop 1630
- A Model of Christian Charity
- People are unequal because God made them that way for the benefit of society. Different classes can learn from each other. A city upon a hill.
- Magna Carta
- A group of English Barons, 1215
- Magna Carta
- This document bound the king by law. He now had to get permission from Parliament.
- Petition of Right
- There are specific liberties that the king cannot infringe upon.
- Wealth of Nations
- Adam Smith
- Wealth of Nations
- There is an invisible hand in the economy that regulates commerce. Because of this, the government shouldn't play a huge role in regulating.
- Massachusettensis
- Daniel Leonard
- Massachusettensis
- Thought that separation is bad. Two sovereign powers in one empire would be absurd.
- Novanglus
- John Adams
- Novanglus
- England is corrupt like the Roman Empire. This document reviews the corrupt things the British has done to them.
- Speech on Conciliation
- Edmund Burke
- Speech on Conciliation
- This document thought that England was suppressing America too much. He wanted to stop so they wouldn't lose America. England must guarantee rights to their colonists to get loyalty.
- Taxation and Tyranny
- Samuel Johnson
- Taxation and Tyranny
- Claimed that when people came across the ocean they gave up their British rights.