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Good work, Cherilynn. Your answers are accurate and easy to understand.

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Thomas More's main theory is seeing the governed as free citizens and not slavish subjects. He'd rather have a republican government than a monarchy as he believed in freedom. More thinks that laws are the fundamental criteria for a government's justice.
 * (1) What was his main theory about government? **

Extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there were no difference to be made between the killing a man and the taking his purse, between which, if we examine things impartially, there is no likeness nor proportion. Utopia, Bk 1. (1516)
 * (2) What did he write about government? (short quotation) **

The Government in the United States have enforced law which was what Thomas More thought was very important. The people in the United States are free citizens who do not practice slavery.
 * (3) What is one brief example of his theory from real life? **

[|I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.]