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What Is Haiku Deck?

Published on Feb 03, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

REASON

  • Scientific and logical thinking

ENLIGHTENMENT

  • New intellectual movement that stressed reason
  • And though and the power of individuals to solve
  • Problems

NATURAL LAW

  • Born with rights of life liberty and property

TABULA RASA

  • Belived that humans had blank mine
  • When they were babys

NATURAL RIGHTS

  • All humans are born with certain rights

SOCIAL CONTRACTS

  • Agreement among individuals to secure
  • Their rights and welfare by creating a government

SEPARATION OF POWER

  • Divistion of power among the branches of government

CHECKS AND BALANCES

  • Allows the three branches of government
  • To limited and control each other

CIVIC VIRTUE

  • Duty as citizens

WRITTEN CONSTITUTION

  • A Document stating the rules and principles on
  • Which a nation is run

UNWRITTEN CONSTITUTION

  • A collection of laws traditions and court decision
  • That develops over time

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

  • A body of rulings that carry legal force

JONH LOCKE

  • Argued that government exists to protect life
  • Liberty and property he belived humans enjoyed

BARON DE MONTEQUIEU

  • French writer who devoted himself
  • To the study of political life liberty and property
  • Humans enjoyed certain rights that no government
  • Can take away

JEAN

  • He argued when the people enter into
  • A social contract they agree to be ruled by the
  • General will

VOLTAIRE

  • French philosopher believed that
  • Freedom of speech was the best weapon
  • Against bad government