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- 3. The ___________ Carta of 1215 placed limits on the power of the British monarch.
- 7. A movement of the 1700s that broke away a little from the church in that it promoted knowledge, reason and science as the means to improve society.
- 9. A British Enlightenment thinker who believed that all people have natural rights, which included the right to life, liberty, and property.
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- 1. The framers of the Constitution looked a lot to the English _______________, England's law making body. The king had to rely on them to pay for war and the royal government.
- 2. A System of government in which the people elect representatives to exercise power for them.
- 4. An Enlightenment thinker who wrote the Spirit of Laws, and declared that the powers of the government should be separated and balanced.
- 5. The English Bill of _____________ of 1689 was another important model for Americans. Many Americans thought the Constitution needed a Bill of Rights.
- 6. We must take an ____________ role as citizens in our system in which we elect people to exercise power for us.
- 8. A woman asked Benjamin Franklin, "What kind of government have you given us, Dr. Franklin? A republic or a monarchy?" "A republic, Madam, if _________ can keep it."