Apr17 Alt ?s Nature’s God by Stewart (7).

1.   Spinoza became the first to champion for what in a perspicuous way? (360).

2.   What was the resolution that John Adams described at the time as “the most important resolution that was ever taken in America?” (364).

3.   The new Pennsylvania constitution was a near total triumph for the democratic political vision of whom? (367).

4.   James Wilson, a key figure in the 1787 Convention, made the point explicitly when he wrote what about the new U.S. Constitution? (368).

5.   The radical philosophers…say that ______________, not belief, is the source of all morality, and that the reasonable state embodies this _______________, in its laws. (374).

6.   Hobbes calls it “the Kingdom of the Fairies”; in more modern terms, we would say that the opposite of democracy is what? (377).

7.   Ordinary laws derive their authority from the institutions that promulgate them, that is, from the institutions of government. Constitutional law, on the other hand, derives its authority from whom? (383).

8.   The new Constitution of 1787 boldly declared what? (386).

9    Of what malady did Thomas Young appear to have died in 1777? (389).

10. There are however many ways to make people equal without necessarily leaving them better off, and what has never been a very strong card to play against the other passions of the human race? (391).

 Alternative discussion questions.

1.       What’s the difference between Property and property?

2.       What’s the difference between unalienable and inalienable rights?