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- 2. the lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature.
- 6. the normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities, and also the collective rights accorded to any minority group
- 7. a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.
- 14. the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.
- 15. founding document of the United States. It was adopted on July 4, 1776 by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in Philadelphia.
- 16. principle of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches and are induced to share power
- 17. Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive
- 18. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
- 20. an act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents).
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- 1. the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws.
- 3. the federal principle or system of government.
- 4. originally titled Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth, was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
- 5. An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown
- 8. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.
- 9. a long series of English laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies.
- 10. The Intolerable Acts, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
- 11. review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act.
- 12. refers to the idea that a government's legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and lawful only when consented to by the people or society over which that political power is exercised.
- 13. a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes
- 19. a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to fund administration of the British colonies in America.