16. ABSOLUTISM, CONSTITUTIONALISM, AND THE SEARCH FOR ORDER, 1640

Quiz for Contrasting Views for Chapter 16

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1. The Levellers insisted on the powers of Parliament because they

thought that Parliament was their best option for defending their “native rights” against the king.

hoped to be elected to Parliament.

agreed with the members of Parliament on all key issues.

knew that the king also wanted Parliament to be supreme.

2. Which of the following is not true of King Charles I’s rejection of the right of Parliament to try him for treason?

He considered the move to try him illegal because his actions as king could not be judged by anyone other than God.

He considered the decision to try him a violation of the fundamental laws of the kingdom.

He believed that God commanded subjects to obey their kings.

He argued that Parliament had not been legally elected.

3. Which of the following did not fit Hobbes’s definition of a “common power” to provide security against foreigners and internal strife?

A commonwealth

A Leviathan

A mortal god

A democracy

4. Which of the groups represented here would be most likely to support a representative form of government?

The king

Hobbes

The Levellers

All of them would be likely to support a representative form of government.