Unit 2 Civics

4. Documents giving a governmental authority the power to search and seize property without restrictions
6. The practice of carrying on formal relationships with governments of other countries
7. The body of unwritten law developed in England from judicial decisions based on custom and earlier judicial decisions
8. sovereignty The natural rights concept that ultimate political authority rests with the people
9. Colonists who opposed American independence and remained loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution. Also known as Tories
10. Betrayal of one’s country
15. A military expedition that was an attempt by the Americans to protect the American North
18. The body of delegates representing the colonies that met in 1775 shortly after the start of the Revolutionary War
19. An organization created in 1765 in every colony to express opposition to the Stamp Act
21. The British legislature, which consists of two houses: the House of Lords and the House of Commons
22. who owes allegiance to a government or ruler
24. Colonists who opposed American independence and remained loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution. Also known as Loyalists

1. Granted certain civil rights and liberties to English nobles, such as the right to a jury of one’s peers and the guarantee against loss of life, liberty, or property, except in accordance with law.constitutional government
2. The organization having central political authority in a nation. The representative unit of political organization
3. The body of colonial delegates who convened to represent the interests of the colonists and protest British rule
5. law A higher, unchanging set of rules that govern human relations believed by the Founders to have come from “Nature and Nature’s God”
7. A written document from a government or ruler that grants certain rights to an individual, group, organization
11. To formally put an end to
12. Those Americans who supported the war for independence against Great Britain
13. evident Easy for anyone to see; obvious
14. A system of social, economic, and political organizations in which a politically weak king or queen shared power with the nobility
16. supremacy A system of government in which the legislative branch has ultimate power
17. A formal, written request
20. An organization formed by women prior to the American Revolution.
23. The right of the branch of government to reject a bill that has been passed in an effort to delay or prevent its enactment.