Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Influences on Self Government
- Thomas Hobbes
- All people are born with certain rights.
- John Locke
- (Natural rights)
- People have rights that the government can not take away.
- Montesquieu
- (3 branches of government)
- Division of power.
- Magna Carta
- AKA "Great Charter"
- 1215
- Led to first limited government
- The government must obey a setof laws
- Democracy
- Practiced by the Greeks, long before the British Empire.
- A Democracy is when people rule by voting or voicing opinion.
- Republic
- Used by Ancient Romans
- A Republic is when the people elect representatives to vote for them.
- English Bill of Rights
- Limited power of monarch.
- Could no tax without parliament's consent.
- Gave citizens rights:
- Speedy Trial
- Petition Government
- No Unusual Government