Foundations of U.S. Government overview

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  1. 4. ___ rights are rights that everyone should have
  2. 5. According to this, people agreed to give up some freedom to be ruled by the government (2 words)
  3. 9. The ______ Bill of Rights listed certain rights of English citizens and said that kings could not take them away.
  4. 11. The first representative government in the colonies (3 words)
  5. 12. The Mayflower Compact set up a direct democracy here
  6. 13. In this type of government the ruler/government is not all-powerful.
  7. 15. In this type of democracy, people choose leaders to govern for them.
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  1. 1. A written agreement
  2. 2. In this type of democracy the people govern themselves
  3. 3. Enlightenment thinker that said people have the right to life, liberty, and property
  4. 6. Enlightenment thinker that said the legislative power belongs to the people
  5. 7. A group of representatives that makes laws
  6. 8. A settlement controlled by another country
  7. 10. When a country has a representative democracy it is called this.
  8. 14. A government in which the people rule