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9 Cards in this Set
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Gibbon
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English historian with moderate political views
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Hume
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Scottish philosopher with moderate political views
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Wilkes
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English journalist and member of Parliament who vehemently attacked the policies of George III, and thus was barred from taking his parliamentary seat
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Hastings
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First governor general of India
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Burke
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Reform minded member of Parliament, who focused on making the House of Commons more independent
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Age of Democratic Revolutions
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Time period of many revolutions on the Atlantic that seemed to confirm democratic principles
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Highlanders
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Group of Scots who had always been unruly and resistant to English domination
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Jacobite revolution
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Revolution in Scotland by the Highlanders, supported by France
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parliamentary sovereignty
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Form of government developing in England; the king had to do all political dealings through Parliament
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