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10 Cards in this Set
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citizens |
community of members who owe loyalty to the government and are entitled to get protection from it |
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social contract |
an agreement by which people give up some freedoms for an organized society |
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petition of right |
document signed by charles I of england that further the powers of the english monarch |
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dual citizenship |
a situation in which a person is legally a citizen of two nations ar once |
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unitary government |
a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency |
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mayflower compact |
formal document written in 1620 that provided law and order to the plymouth colony |
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magna carta |
a written legal agreement signed in 1215 that limited the english monarchs power |
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majority rule |
principle by which a group agrees to abide by the opinion that most members hold |
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leviathan |
enlightenment era work by thomas hobbes in which he expresses his ideas on government |
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popular sovereignty |
government by consent of the governed |
