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- 2. system of government in which citizens choose representatives to govern them.
- 5. Carta/Signed in 1215, a British document that contained two basic ideas: monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic rights.
- 7. democracy/People vote directly on laws and policies.
- 9. of law/The restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws.
- 11. democracy/A form of government in which the power of the people is limited to the parameters of a constitution.
- 12. of law/The restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws.
- 14. Confederacy/A historical indigenous confederacy in northeast North America.
- 15. league or compact for mutual support or common action.
- 17. Jacques Rousseau/Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation.
- 19. states/Large towns that have their own government, and controls the surrounding countryside.
- 20. assembly in England.
- 22. of powers/Principle by which the powers of government are divided among separate branches.
- 23. rights /Rights that belong to all people from birth.
- 24. corpus/The right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime.
- 25. contract /An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits.
- 28. compact/A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony.
- 29. that sets out the laws, principles, organization, and processes of a government.
- 30. Locke/An English philosopher and political theorist, and is recognized as the founder of British empiricism.
- 31. meeting/In colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on issues.
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- 1. group of people who have the power to make laws.
- 3. Bill of Rights/An act signed into law in 1689 by William III and Mary II, who became co-rulers in England.
- 4. de Montesquieu/A French lawyer, man of letters, and one of the most influential political philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment.
- 6. of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony.
- 8. of Burgesses/Representative assembly in colonial Virginia.
- 10. government/Political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.
- 13. Law Of Peace/The oral constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy.
- 16. good/The benefit or interests of all.
- 18. pre-colonial Native American/Indian leader and co-founder of the Iroquois Confederacy.
- 19. participation(duty)/An active participation in the public life of a community in an informed, committed, and constructive manner, with a focus on the common good.
- 21. smaller of the two bodies that make up the legislative branch of the United States government.
- 26. Plan of Union/Proposal by Benjamin Franklin to create one government for the 13 colonies.
- 27. duty/An active participation in the public life of a community in an informed, committed, and constructive manner, with a focus on the common good.