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What does each community need to establish and enforce its rules and laws?
Government
Who said Parliament protected it citizens and treated them fairly?
William Blackstone
What kind of government in the one in which the people vote for their leaders?
Representative
Who is a group of people that makes decisions in the courts?
Jury
Today, the ______ includes television, the internet, and newspapers.
The press.
Who led settlers from Massachusetts to Connecticut?
Thomas Hooker
What is the definition of government?
The set of laws and customs by which people live.
What is the definition of charter?
A written plan for government that sets forth both laws and freedoms.
The Magna Carta
What group included the House of Commons?
Parliament
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Locke wrote that people had what three natural rights?
Life, liberty, and property.
Who wrote Democracy in America based on his travels to the United States?
Alexis de Tocqueville
Who suggested that a government should have three separate branches?
Baron de Montesquieu
Where was the first representative government in the colonies established at?
Jamestown
Who wrote Two Treatises on Government?
John Locke
The Declaration of Independence lists the colonists _______ against King George?
Who led the Continental Army?
George Washington
Who were the people in Ancient Greece that were able to hold high government office?
Free men.
What document required the colonists to pay taxes on paper goods?
The Stamp Act
Who suggested dividing a government's power among three branches?
Charles-Louis de Montesquieu
A person who rules with total control.
Who criticized the English government in his newspaper?
John Peter Zenger
Where were the first shots of the American Revolution fired at?
Lexington