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A writ or legal order directed to an official holding a person in custody.
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Habeas Corpus
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magna carta
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King of France
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Henry the 2
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gave political rights to French Protestants in the Edict of Nantes
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codified the laws of Mesopotamia and Sumeria.
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Hammurabi
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held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians
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Justinian
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body of law formed overtime by accumulation of precedents and prior decisions.
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Common law
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legislative bodies of a law
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latin root word
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jus
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root word
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get out of jail
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bail
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price
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the implied agreement amoung individuals in a community or between the people and thier rulers
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social contract
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agreement
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Gullotine
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Joseph Stalin
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dictator
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English philosopher
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john locke
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an essay
Two Treatises on Government |
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pilgrams arrived in massachuserrs bay
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Mayflower compact
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division of power between national and state goverment
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Federalism
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powerment
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change added to a document
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Amendments
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laws made for equality
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forms of government in which citizens delegate poweer to representative
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republic
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forms of which government under which the people elect representatives to the law making.
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parliamentary system
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john locke wrote an a essay and did this
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two treatises of goverment
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john locke
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all powerful ruler
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Absolute Monarchs
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monarcry
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centralized control that is absolute or unlimited
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totalitarian
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government
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plans of government based on historical documents.
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unwritten constitution
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constitution
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Based on or characterized by one or more units.
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Unitary
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math
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A U.S. banking system that consists of 12 federal reserve banks, with each one serving member banks in its own district. This system, supervised by the Federal Reserve Board, has broad regulatory powers over the money supply and the credit structure.
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federal system
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federal
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goverment party
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democracy
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opposite of republican
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written law put together in codes
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Statutory law
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written laws
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allow people to have rules that they agree on
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general will
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rules that you agree on
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category of law concerne with disputes between individuals and between individuals and the goverment.
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civil law
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individuals and government
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Category of law concerned with offenses against public order
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Criminal law
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public defense
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Hammurabi laws
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code of hammurabi
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laws by empror
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justinian
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justinian code
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laws by empror
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twelve
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twelve tablets
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tablets
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goverment by a small group of people who excersise all of the power
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Oligarchy
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group of people of power
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goverment headed by one person-the king or queen-believed to be of royal birth
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Monarchy
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king or queen
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unlimted government by one person
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dictatorship
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ultimate power
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authority given specifically to the federal govement by the constitution
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Delecated powers
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Enumerated powers
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system in government in which the citisens themselves make the descion and vote on laws
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direct democraxy
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citizens can vote on laws
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system of government in which citizens elect people to make laws and decisions in te best intrest of all people
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representative democracy
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intrest of all people
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basic rights of the people
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Natural rights of man
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john locke called them
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system under which the power of the government has no restraints
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unlimted government
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power of goverment
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system under which there are no restraints on the ruling authority
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Authorian Government
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idea that a monarch's authority to rule was given by god
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Divine right theory
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form of goverment under which states hold the major power and give limited power to the central goverment
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Confederate system
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orders of fun
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fundamental orders of conneticut
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decisions made by more then half of those involved
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majority rule
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