Chapter 1 Lessons 3 & 4

3. To have the law in known, orderly ways.
4. The division of government into separate branches.
8. Nations An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world.
9. A system of governing in which the ruler's power is limited by law.
11. A formal summary of the rights and liberties believed essential for the people.
12. The idea that monarchs are God's representatives on Earth and therefore answer only to God.
13. A document, written by English nobles, as a way to present their demands to the king. It was a contract between the king and nobles of England.
15. A form of government where citizens elect representatives to make laws and policies for them.

1. A unified body of law formed from rulings of England's royal judges that serves as the basis for law in many English-speaking countries today, including the United States.
2. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of individual states.
5. an 18th-century European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society.
6. The bloodless overthrow of the English king James II and his replacement by William and Mary.
7. The agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government.
10. A body of representatives that makes laws for a nation.
14. The rights human beings have by nature, such as life, liberty and property.