Jenna Westrick - Prologue

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Across
  1. 2. government where citizens directly rule and make laws
  2. 5. set of Jewish laws given to Moses by God
  3. 7. indirect democracy; citizens elect leaders
  4. 9. religion started by Jesus
  5. 10. national legislature of England
  6. 12. system that divides government power between federal and local
  7. 13. government where citizens elect representatives to make laws for them
  8. 14. claim that a king has absolute power from God
  9. 17. dividing a government into branches
  10. 18. religion based on Muhammad's teachings
  11. 20. agreement between members of society
  12. 21. end of Catholic rule by King James II and crowning of his Protestant daughter
  13. 24. government ruled by the citizens
  14. 25. government controlled by a single monarch
  15. 26. system in place to control a society
  16. 27. "Great Charter" of demands given to King John by English nobles
  17. 29. religion of Israelites/Jews
  18. 30. government ruled by a group of powerful people
Down
  1. 1. "rebirth" of classical culture in Europe
  2. 3. government limiting the monarch's power through laws
  3. 4. science and reason-focused movement in 17 and 18th century Europe
  4. 6. governing council that works with other governing bodies
  5. 8. international organization formed before the end of WWII to maintain peace and rights
  6. 11. rights to life, liberty, and property
  7. 15. right to have an orderly legal system and to not be imprisoned without cause
  8. 16. document summarizing essential rights and liberties
  9. 19. government with a few land-owning families in power
  10. 22. movement to reform the Catholic Church; created Protestantism
  11. 23. common British legal system based on customs
  12. 28. influential christian institution in Middle Ages Europe