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Governments and Such: 1600 - 1700
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1600 - 1700
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Political People / Groups 1600 - 1700
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1600-1700
100
Governments led by kings or queens
What is monarchy
100
The duty of citizens
What is civic virtue
100
Rule by the military
What is martial law
100
People who wanted to purify the Protestant Church of England
What is Puritan
100
A plan of government
What is constitution
200
Any system in which the people hold power, usually through the vote
What is democracy
200
An agreement between citizens and their ruler
What is social contract
200
Written in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson
What is Declaration of Independence
200
Russian word for “Caesar,” Russian ruler
What is Czar
200
Monarchs exercised absolute and total control
What is unlimited government
300
A system in which power is restricted by the people
What is limited government
300
Law that applied to everyone that could be understood through reason
What is natural law
300
Great Charter that established the idea of limited government
What is Magna Carta
300
Representatives that speak for the people of England
What is Parliament
300
England’s bloodless invasion
What is Glorious Revolution
400
A government in which the power rests in the hands of a single leader and his or her advisers
What is autocracy
400
A body of rulings that carry legal force
What is constitutional law
400
Protected the rights of French Protestants
What is Edict of Nantes
400
French assembly
What is Estates-General
400
The return of the monarchy
What is Restoration
500
Monarchy ruled by an elected assembly and limited by law
What is constitutional monarchy
500
Rules that shape the actions of government and the people
What is supreme law
500
Limits the monarchy and states the rights of Parliament and the people
What is English Bill of Rights of 1689
500
Educated person who uses reason to study life
What is philosphe
500
Bans the king from passing taxes without consent of Parliament, quartering troops in private homes, and imprisoning a person without charges
What is Petition of Rights