Civics

5. written or published statement that damages another persons reputation
11. plan for government approved by the states in 1781
13. bicameral national legislature of Great Britain, consisting of the House of Commons and the house of Lords
14. first representative assembly in the American colonies
15. 1765 British tax on publications and legal documents in the American colonies

1. unspoken agreement by which people are joined to their government
2. philosophical movement in 18th century Europe that stressed individualism, question traditional values, and argued that humans can use reason to solve problems
3. branch of government that makes the laws
4. American's first written constitution, it was a plan for governing the Pilgrim colony written on board the mayflower
6. way of administering justice that is established by law
7. right of an arrested person to be brought before a judge who determines if his imprisonment is legal
8. having a single legislative body or house
9. name given by the colonists for the series of British laws, offically named the Coercive Acts, that were passed by Parliament to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party
10. trade between two or more states
12. power of a government to make decisions for itself within its own territory or jurisdiction