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What is Athens?
This ancient civilization was the first to create a government of direct democracy.
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What is the Magna Carta?
This famous document was signed in 1215 by the King John which limited his power to rule.
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What is Declaration of Independence?
This famous document written by colonial leaders during the Revolution declared independence from the British.
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What is Rome?
This ancient civilization gave American founders the idea of representative democracy?
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What is the English Bill of Rights?
This document laid out the rights of the English people?
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What is the Mayflower Compact?
The Pilgrim's came to the New World and drafted this document to help them govern themselves.
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What is Judaism? (also will accept Judeo-Christian)
This religion was foundational to democratic ideals.
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What is social contract?
Thomas Hobbes was most famous for this.
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What is the House of Burgesses?
The early colony of Jamestown organized themselves politically by creating this legislative body.
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What is a Senate?
The Roman government was placed into the hands of an assembly known as this.
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What is natural rights?
John Locke argued that each individual has these.
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What is self government?
The colonists characteristically had this attitude toward government as they came over.
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What is free men over the age of 18?
This group of citizens was given the right to participate in the direct democracy of Athens.
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What is the separation of powers?
Baron de Montesquieu wrote about a way in which governments could be restrained now referred to as this.
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What is "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
Recite the most famous line from the Declaration of Independence.
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