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  1. 2. an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country
  2. 4. is a landmark Act in the constitutional law of England that sets out certain basic civil rights and clarifies who would be next to inherit the Crown
  3. 5. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies
  4. 9. an American attorney, planter, politician, and orator best known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention
  5. 10. consisted of a number of measures meant to punish the port of Boston and the people of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea party
  6. 12. a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than the people
  7. 13. having a single legislative chamber
  8. 15. a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority
  9. 17. beyond the authority of the law; not regulated by the law.
  10. 20. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed
  11. 23. is one of the most important documents in history as it established the principle that everyone is subject to the law, even the king, and guarantees the rights of individuals, the right to justice and the right to a fair trial
  12. 24. is an English constitutional document setting out specific individual protections against the state, reportedly of equal value to Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights
  13. 25. supreme power or authority
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  1. 1. the dependence of two or more people or things on each other.
  2. 3. was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies
  3. 6. a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.
  4. 7. provided basic laws in English colonies, layed out plans of US constitution
  5. 8. a piece of legislation enacted by a municipal authority
  6. 11. the first governing document of Plymouth Colony
  7. 12. income, especially when of a company or organization and of a substantial nature
  8. 14. commerce in U.S. constitutional law, any commercial transactions or traffic that cross state boundaries or that involve more than one state.
  9. 16. give up (power or territory)
  10. 18. the concept of a government limited in power. It is a key concept in the history of liberalism.
  11. 19. sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid
  12. 21. the act required that, starting in the fall of 1765, legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax stamp provided by commissioned distributors
  13. 22. the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power