Webquest 4

Assignment: Madison’s Experiences Webquest (30 points)
Directions:
• Locate at least one internet source for FIVE of the people and/or documents listed below.
• Evaluate the sources of information in the first table.
• In the second table, sort information about your 5 people and/or documents into the topics.
• Answer the questions below the table in complete sentences using correct grammar.

People/documents:
• Montesquieu
• The Magna Carta
• Aristotle
• Constitutional Convention
• John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
• English Petition of Right
• Habeas Corpus Act
• British Bill of Rights
Sources
Person or document #1

Montesquieu
#2

John Locke and
Thomas Hobbes
#3

Aristotle

URL

Evaluation of source

http://www. notablebiographies. really good source! Has almost everything! com/Mo-Ni/ Montesquieu.html http://www.essortment. trustworthy source has exactly everything I needed! com/thomas-hobbesjohn-locke-46760.html http://www.britannica. com/EBchecked/ topic/34560/Aristotle

very popular site and high ratings very accurate.

#4

http://www.constitution. has all the rights and information about it very good.
British Bill of Rights org/bor/eng_bor.htm
#5
Constitutional
Convention

http:// teachingamericanhistor its a teacher resource website and very helpful and good.
y.org/convention/

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Information
Person or document
#1

Historic Context

Main Ideas about
Government

The article brings forth attention to the importance of the early eighteenth-century Montesquieu debates on nature of the
French monarchy for our realization of
Montesquieu’s prize, The
#2
Locke’s the Spirit of before the Laws. revolution was inimical an which was to be taken to
John Locke and Thomas consideration while discussing Locke’s ideas
Hobbes
of government. Thomas
(Thomas, 1995) even speaks of a “modern
#3
He sees politics as a police state" science, worried with the project of directing citystates and household in
Aristotle
such a way to promote the virtue and flourishing of the