The 5000 Year Leap / 2nd Principle
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2nd Principle Quiz / Virtuous and Morally Strong / The 5000 Year Leap
Questions and Answers
- 1.
Franklin wrote: Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of…- A.
Laws
- B.
Masters
- C.
Teachers
- D.
Jails
- 2.
Modern historian, Gordon S. Wood stated: "In a Republic, however, each man must somehow be persuaded to submerge his personal wants into the greater good of the whole." He was speaking about…
- A.
Public Virtue
- B.
Natural Law
- C.
Greed
- D.
Love
- 3.
What question seemed to be on the minds of many of the founders prior to declaring their independence?
- A.
Did they have enough wealth to stand against their oppressors?
- B.
Did they have the arms necessary to defend themselves?
- C.
Was their cause just?
- D.
Did they posses the quality of public virtue in sufficient measure?
- 4.
Who was the author of the book "Common Sense"?
- A.
John Adams
- B.
Thomas Paine
- C.
Thomas Jefferson
- D.
John Jay
- 5.
Who said: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
- A.
Samuel Adams
- B.
John Adams
- C.
Richard Henry Lee
- D.
George Washington
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