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- 4. Something that protects citizens' right to practice their religion as they please, so long as the practice does not run afoul
- 5. a type of democracy where elected persons represent a group of people, in contrast to direct democracy.
- 7. The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first frame of government
- 9. a process under which executive, legislative and administrative actions are subject to review by the judiciary
- 12. a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges.
- 13. the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
- 16. the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation.
- 19. the British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, especially trade laws, as long as British colonies remained loyal
- 21. the quality of being in accordance with a political constitution.
- 23. To sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid.
- 24. Something that prohibits the government from "establishing" a religion.
- 25. a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Enlightenment Thinker (Father of Modern Economics).
- 26. a procedural defence that prevents an accused person from being tried again on the same charges
- 27. an act signed into law in 1689 by William III and Mary II
- 28. a controversial political doctrine according to which the people of federal territories should decide for themselves whether their territories would enter the Union as free or slave states.
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- 1. counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups.
- 2. e balances out concerns about representation based on population – although larger states have more power in the House of Representatives, all states have the same amount of power in the Senate.
- 3. People who wanted to improve human conditions on earth rather than concern themselves with religion and the afterlife.
- 6. the elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly,
- 8. Southern states demanded that slaves count as 3/5 of a person to be counted in their populations
- 10. Something created to set up an electoral college system that allowed voters to vote for electors,who would then cast their votes for candidates
- 11. an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism” (Enlightenment Thinker)
- 14. the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.
- 15. a theory or model that originated during the Age of Enlightenment and usually concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.
- 17. Rights that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal, fundamental and inalienable.
- 18. A plan that wanted a legislature that gave each state equal representation, regardless of the size of its population.
- 20. French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher. He is the principal source of the theory of separation of powers, which is implemented in many constitutions throughout the world. Also an enlightenment thinker.
- 22. a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.