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A written plan of government.
What is a constitution?
100
A government's lawmaking body.
What is a legislature?
100
A government with a King AND a representative democracy.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
100
A country in which the people choose their lawmakers and the leader of their country. Example: the United States
What is a republic?
100
A government based on religious principles.
What is a theocracy?
200
This Enlightenment Thinker believed that the government should be broken up into separate branches so that no one branch could become too powerful.
Who is Montesquieu?
200
Written in 1620, it was the first document of self-government in North America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
The time in history when scientists and philosophers began to see the world as an orderly place that was based on reason.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
Schools, police protection, fire protection, roads, emergency response are all examples of ___________ provided by the government.
What are services?
200
The document that established the principle of limited government.
What is the Magna Carta?
300
The government is always controlled by one person.
What is an autocracy? (examples: absolute monarchy and dictatorship)
300
According to John Locke: life, liberty, and property
What are natural rights?
300
According to him, all men are created equal.
Who is John Locke?
300
A form of government in which the power is in the hands of a small group of people.
What is an oligarchy?
300
The document that established guaranteed rights for English citizens. Rights could not be violated, EVEN BY THE KING!!!
What is the English Bill of Rights?
400
The idea that people give up some freedom in exchange for the protection of a government.
What is the social contract?
400
Document that established that a ruler or government official should have to follow the same laws as everyone else.
What is the Magna Carta? (Magna Carta establishedlimited gov't, the Rule of Law, Trial by Jury, and the idea of taxation with consent)
400
The principle of democracy that allows the larger portion of a community to make laws and decisions that the entire community will have to obey.
What is majority rule?
400
A form of government in which power is shared and divided between the central government and smaller units of government, like states.
What is the federal system?
400
This act forced colonists to allow British troops to live in their houses.
What is the Quartering Act?
500
Because the English citizens had been represented by this, they expected to have some say in their colonial government.
What is British Parliament?
500
According to him, the ruler must be strong to protect us.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
500
Greek city-state that was the birthplace of democracy.
What is Athens?
500
We must give up some freedom in exchange for the government's protection, but if the government does not protect our rights, we can rebel and replace it! This is an example.
What is Locke's "breakable social contract?"
500
According to him, life is "poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Who is Thomas Hobbes?