Winthrop begins his sermon, “The Model of Christian Charity,” by asserting

That God has made men unequal, so as to bind them together

What year was the Mayflower Compact written?

1620

In the Mayflower Compact the Plymouth colonist promise to make

Just and equal laws for the general good

Winthrop distinguished two types of liberty in “Little Speech on Liberty,” what are they?

Natural – common to all (both man and beast), it makes us do bad things and makes us more like a beast than an actual beast Civil – the proper end of object of authority, and society cannot subsist without it. It is the only liberty that is good and honest. It tames are natural liberty. Like a husband/wife relationship, meaning the wife is “free” but she needs to be tamed by her husband and made better.

Why do you think Winthrop used the image of a “Citty upon a Hill” for their new community?

to communicate that the Puritans’ new community would be public, visible, and morally accountable

What was the name of the bill Madison was unfavorable of and what did he claim it was trying to do?

A bill establishing a provision for teachers of the Christian religion and argued it was trying to force Christianity/ religion in schools

According to James Madison, religion can only be direct by

reason and conviction

Jefferson bases his argument for religious liberty on

The natural right of freedom of the mind

In George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, we should be government of

wise, just, and constitutional laws

What Amendment does both court cases address?

First Amendment

True or False: The Supreme ruled that it was unconstitutional to force members of the Amish religion to send their children to school in Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972).

True

True or False: Lee v. Weisman (1992) does not mention Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

False

What is the cause tending to the maintenance of a democratic republic?

The particular and accidental situation in which Providence placed the Americans, The laws, Habits and mores

True or False: Tocqueville says that material well-being exerts a power over political actions and on opinions in America.

True

What does Tocqueville say is the greatest advantage of religion?

That it inspires us to go against natural instincts

According to Locke, we all own the earth in common. Nonetheless, he tells us that we can gain property for ourselves by

mixing our labor with the things given by nature to all men.

When is it acceptable in the state of nature to let picked fruit spoil and go to waste?

Spoilage is not a problem if there is enough (and as good) left for others.

What does Locke think about attempts by the people to rebel against the government?

Rebellion is justified if the legislative power is changed or the government seriously violates the rights of the people.

True or False: Locke claims that the people are likely to rouse themselves and put the rule into someone’s else’s hands after a long train of abuses.

True

Which of the following is a grievance stated in Jefferson’s “Summary View”?

Freedom to trade has been abridged, The right of the colonies to legislate has been suspended or denied, Feudal tenures have wrongly been imposed in the colonies, against the ancient Saxon common law

Jefferson describes the king as

Holder of the executive power for each of the colonies

In Summary View, what protest does Jefferson defend, even if it was not strictly legal?

The Boston Tea Party

Paine urges independence because

monarchy is a bad form of government, as British abuses have been proven, American commerce will continue to thrive apart from England, In the long run, an island can’t govern a continent

In “Thoughts on Government,” Adams says about a representative assembly that

It ought to be a portrait in miniature of the people at large, It should not exercise the executive power, Its members should be elected annually

According to the Declaration of Independence

Men are created equal and justly governed only by their consent

In the Declaration, acts of Parliament to which the colonist are said to be

Foreign to the constitution and unacknowledged by the laws