tj Flashcards
4 enlightenment thinkers
ISAAC NEWTON’S
JOHN LOCKE
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
One of his greatest achievements was what
the passage of the Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty of 1786 a
disestablishment
The idea of removing the power of the government from the structure of the Church
what contains language that is very similar to that of the Virginia statute.
the First Amendment
how many known “declarations” from colonies and localities between April and July 1776
At least 90
Structure of the Declaration of Independence,
- INTRODUCTION:
- PREAMBLE
- BODY A:
- BODY B
- DECLARATION
INTRODUCTION
document will “declare” the “causes” to leave the British Empire
PREAMBLE:
sets out principles that were already recognized to be “self-evident”
BODY A
gives evidence of the “long train of abuses and usurpations” heaped upon the colonists by King George III
BODY B
the colonists had appealed in vain to their “British brethren” for a redress of their grievances
DECLARATION
: Having stated the conditions that made independence necessary and having shown that those conditions existed in British North America,
authoritarian
favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.
totalitarian
relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
democracy
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
constutional governemnt
It means government conducted according to rules and principles,
