- Representative government
British Parliament - Lower House - House of Commons
- Limited government
Magna Carta - 1215
- Individual rights
Petition of Right - 1628; English Bill of Rights - 1689
Intellectual influences
- Judeo-Christian influence
individual rights, individual responsibility
- Republicanism
classic Republicanism; Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy; Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
- Enlightenment thought
Locke's Second Treatise on Government (1690) ; Rousseau's The Social Contract (1762) ;
Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
Who wants to think??
Locke's 2nd Treatise on Government
Rousseau's The Social Contract
Plato's Republic
St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica
