| A | B |
|---|
| Montesquieu | Separation of powers, checks and balances |
| Thomas Hobbes | Social Contract, state of nature |
| Rousseau | Popular Sovereignty Consent of the Governed |
| John Locke | Natural Rights, the right to abolish an unjust government |
| Magna Carta | Barons forced King John to sign 63 government reforms |
| English Bill of Rights -1689 | Limited the king's power and Established the rights of Parliament |
| English Petition of Rights-1628 | Unalienable rights, Rule of Law, no quartering of soldiers |
| Divine Right Theory | Teaching that the monarch is ordained by God to rule and the people should obey as they would God |
