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- 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.
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- 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.