The Austonian (Austin), Trammell Crow Center (Dallas), continental Center I (Huston)
Answer:
The ideas of the Enlightenment influenced American colonists like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson because they read the works of Enlightenment thinkers and adopted similar views on politics and society. Political philosophers of the Enlightenment believed that using reason will guide us to the best ways to operate in order to create the most beneficial conditions for society. This included a conviction that all human beings have certain natural rights which are to be protected and preserved. The Enlightenment ideal was that individual freedom and equal rights and opportunity for all would be promoted and protected. Each individual's well-being (life, health, liberty, possessions) should be served by the way government and society are arranged. The American founding fathers accepted these Enlightenment views and acted on them.
Further detail / example:
John Locke, in his Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690), had expressed the idea of natural rights in the words that follow. Notice the similarities to what was later stated in the American colonists' <em>Declaration of Independence</em> (1776).
- <em>The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions… (and) when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind, and may not, unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another.</em>
Answer:
True
Explanation:
Lincoln signed the Final Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves not residing in specified Union-controlled areas of the Confederacy, and authorized enrollment of African Americans into the military.
Answer:
A central idea in the Bill of Rights is that the monarch could only exercise power as stated in the law.
Explanation:
The Bill of Rights is a document drafted in England in 1689, which imposed the English Parliament on Prince William of Orange to succeed King James II.
The main purpose of this text was to recover and strengthen certain parliamentary powers already disappeared or notoriously diminished during the absolutist reign of the Stuarts (Charles II and James II), in order to put a limit to the absolute power of the English kings.
The correct answer to this is likely B.
A supporter of Citizens United would likely argue that corporations are citizens have speech rights and that money is speech.
