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40 Cards in this Set
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Amendment that protects speech and religion.
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First
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Revolution broke out here in 1789-1799.
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France
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Three branches principle
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Separation of Powers
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Revolutions broke out here between 1810-1824.
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Latin America
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Wrote letters to Voltaire and supported Enlightenment ideas for her subjects.
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Catherine the Great
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Amendment that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
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Eighth
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Enlightenment thinkers spoke out against this theory that God determines who rules.
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Divine Right of Kings
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Right states in Bill of Rights and Magna Carta.
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Due Process
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Enlightened Despot Catherine the Great ruled this country.
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Russia
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Its first words are "We the people"
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Preamble
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Thinker who would have disapproved of the US Constitution.
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Hobbes
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Father of the US Constitution.
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James Madison
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Established the first US government that was extremely weak.
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Articles of Confederation
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Principle behind the three branch system of government.
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Checks & Balances
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The right given to citizens when government breaks the social contract according to Locke.
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Rebel
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Punished by the Catholic church for supporting Heliocentric theory.
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Galileo
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Natural rights philosopher.
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Locke
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"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend, to the death, your right to say it."
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Voltaire
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First 10 amendments
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Bill of Rights
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Proposed the heliocentric theory of the universe.
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Copernicus
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This war broke out prior to the Declaration of Independence.
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Revolutionary
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"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
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Rousseau
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What citizens must give in order for government to rule.
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Consent
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Nation that adopted 3 branch system because of US example.
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South Korea
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Written by Thomas Jefferson.
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Declaration of Independence.
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Life, liberty, & property.
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Natural Rights
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Extended rights of subjects while maintaining absolute power.
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Enlightened Despots
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Belief in progress, non religious outlook and rights of individuals was the enlightenment's ____________.
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Legacy
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Declaration of Independence rights that can't be taken away.
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Unalienable Rights
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They declared independence from England.
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Colonists
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Agreement between government and its people.
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Social Contract
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Principle that states power is shared between national and state governments.
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Federalism
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Enlightenment thinkers spoke in favor of a separation between __________ & state,
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Church
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Intellectual movement emphasizing progress, rights of individuals and questioning traditional religion.
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Enlightenment
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Consent of the governed principle found in preamble.
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Popular Sovereignty
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"For punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes."
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Beccaria
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Enlightened despot Joseph II ruled this country.
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Austria
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Enlightened despots Frederick the Great ruled this country.
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Prussia
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Wrote the Declaration of Independence.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Proved the heliocentric theory mathematically.
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Kepler
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