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  1. 1. a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.
  2. 4. Rights that are not dependent on the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and are therefore universal and inalienable.
  3. 6. a form of government characterized by a single leader or group of leaders that hold government power promised to the people and little or no toleration for political pluralism or independent media.
  4. 7. an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".
  5. 9. an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory.
  6. 11. the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.
  7. 13. an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent, generally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the American Revolution.
  8. 17. The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed.
  9. 18. an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century.
  10. 19. a form of government in which a person,is head of state for life or until abdication.
  11. 20. In moral and political philosophy, the social contract is a theory or model that originated during the Age of Enlightenment and usually concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.
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  1. 2. an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution.
  2. 3. the activity of making citizens "present" in public policy making processes when political actors act in the best interest of citizens.
  3. 5. an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, musician, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
  4. 8. a requirement that legal matters be resolved according to established rules and principles, and that individuals be treated fairly.
  5. 10. a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation, or to choose governing officials to do so.
  6. 12. A War initiated by delegates from thirteen American colonies of British America in Congress against Great Britain.
  7. 14. an document that comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
  8. 15. An moral and political philosophy, religion, social contract theories and international law, is the hypothetical life of people before societies came into existence.
  9. 16. The system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.