| A | B |
|---|
| Ancient Athens | Direct Democracy |
| Ancient Rome | Republic |
| First permanent English colony | Jamestown |
| democracy | Greek for "the people rule" |
| absolute rulers | unlimited power |
| Magna Carta | first limit to English king's power |
| Enlightenment | all people deserve rights |
| John Locke | natural rights |
| Natural rights | life, liberty, property |
| Montesquieu | separation of powers |
| Voltaire | freedom of speech |
| Voltaire | freedom of religion |
| Charters of Va. Company | colonists have rights of Englishmen |
| Goerge Mason | Virginia Declaration of Rights |
| Thomas Jefferson | Declaration of Independence |
| Thomas Jefferson | Va. Statute of Religious Freedom |
| Unalienable rights | life, liberty, pursuit of happiness |
| King John | signed Magna Carta |
| James Madison | Main writer of Constitution |
| Bill of Rights | First 10 Amendments |
