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13 Cards in this Set
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Magna Carta/Great Charter
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Magna Carta means "Great Charter" in Latin. Document that limited the monarch's power, saying no one would ever be above the law
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Mayflower Compact
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A government plan drawn up by the Pilgrims for the new world. Direct democracy in New England
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Common Law
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A system of law based on precedent and customs
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English Bill of Rights
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Declared citizens' rights. Big influence on American Bill of Rights
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Code of Hammurabi
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"Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" philosophy
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Constitution of the Iroquois Nation
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An influence on the Declaration of Indepedence. ("We the people...")
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Parliament
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The British legislature
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The Englightenment
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The Age of Reason, many philosophers, era that many ideas that formed America came from
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John Locke
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A seventeeth-century philosopher who wrote the Second Treatise of Government, a main influence on Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence
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Second Treatise of Government
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Written by John Locke, published in 1690. Good govt= social contract between the people and rulers. People give up some freedom for protection of govt. If govt misuses power, people have right to overthrow said govt.
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Social Contract theory
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Explains the origin and the purpose of human rights.
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Natural Rights
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The Founding Fathers believed that we all have God given rights that no one else has the right to take away.
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Limited Government
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Govt is not omnipotent--- it may do only those things that people have given it the power to do.
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