Definitions
A large group of people who inhabit a specific territory and are connected by history, culture, or another commonality
What is a Nation?
Rule by none aka no government
What is anarchy?
The foundational document of British Democracy first signed in 1215
What is the Magna Carta?
The birthplace of democracy
What is Athens?
The Fundamental Characteristic of Democracy
What is Majority Rule?
A territory with its own institutions and populations
What is a State?
A middle ground between Absolute Monarchies and Ceremonial Monarchies
What is a Constitutional Monarchy?
The body, initially of lords but later including commoners, assembled to advise the monarchy and consent to taxes
What is Parliament?
Democracy was initially hated by these influential individuals.
Who are philosophers (Socrates and Plato)?
Fundamental Freedoms protected by law
What are Liberties?
A system of public rule or authority by which a body is acknowledged to be governed
What is a Government?
A Representative Democracy where the Executive is chosen by the legislature
What is a Parliamentary Democracy?
When William and Mary were made co-monarchs after signing the English Bill of Rights
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This ancient Roman body was advisory on paper but held all of the power in reality.
What is the Roman Senate?
What citizens need to ask what is right instead of what is best for me?
What is moral responsibility?
Supreme power free from external control
What is Sovereignty?
A fancy Spanish word for a military oligarchy
What is a Junta?
The bloody conflict that fully established Parliament's supremacy over the monarchy
What is the English Civil War?
An ally in the American Revolution whose government served as a model for the Articles of Confederation
What is the Dutch Republics/Confederacy?
A characteristic that is embodied in a Constitution
What is Minority Rights (or Equality under the Law)?
A state with ultimate sovereignty over its territory and population and some level of international relations/ recognition
What is a Sovereign State?
The main difference between a monarchy and a dictatorship
What is legitimacy?
This King's execution was an important turning point in English law and government.
Who is Charles I?
This city-state was ostensibly a demarchy but was under the control of the wealthy elites and eventually the Medici family alone
What is Florence?
To succeed, a democracy must provide economic opportunity, educational opportunity, and this other type of opportunity.
What is Political Opportunity?