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44 Cards in this Set
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a non-codified form of law based on long-accepted customs and traditions |
Common Law |
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a man is judged guilty or not guilty by a group of his peers |
Trial by Jury |
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Meetings of the Great Council |
Parliament |
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Great Charter |
Magna Carta |
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The law which the English monarchs’ power was strictly limited |
English Bill of Rights |
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A plan of union for maintaining law and order -signed by the Pilgrims when they landed on New Plymouth |
Mayflower Compact |
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A document issued by the crown which established the relationship between the king and his subjects |
Charters |
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• Massachusetts Body of Liberties- Capital offenses and Scripture references for verses that state the infraction and the punishment. •The New Haven Colony Laws- made attempts to conform the civil law to biblical law. |
Massachusetts Body of Liberties, The New Haven Colony Laws |
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Law above the law |
higher law |
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One house legislature |
unicameral |
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Composed of two houses |
Bicameral |
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Local citizens assembled periodically to become the chief lawmaking body for their town |
town meeting |
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Local unit of government |
County |
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Spiritual revival which swept the American colonies between 1730 and 1760 |
Great Awakening |
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The idea that the church and state ought to be separate as institutions |
Separation of church and state |
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A plan proposed for uniting the colonies |
Albany plan |
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Protest the stamp tax and other British regulations which the colonists felt were illegal |
Declaration of Rights and Grievancesl |
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A series of laws to punish the colonists of Boston for resistance to their regulations |
“Intolerable Acts” |
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•House of Lords- the upper house made up of nobility and clergy •House of Commons- the lower house made up of the representatives of the “common” people |
House of Lords, House of Commons |
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The first representative assembly in the colonies |
House of Burgesses |
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Prohibitory Act |
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Declaration of Independence |
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Stamp Act Congress |
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The first representative assembly in the colonies |
House of Burgesses |
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Pledged the loyalty of the colonists to the Crown but protested Parliamentary interference with American rights |
First Continental Congress |
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America’s first central government |
Second Continental Congress |
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Prohibitory Act |
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Declaration of Independence |
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•House of Lords- the upper house made up of nobility and clergy •House of Commons- the lower house made up of the representatives of the “common” people |
House of Lords, House of Commons |
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The first representative assembly in the colonies |
House of Burgesses |
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Stamp Act Congress |
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Pledged the loyalty of the colonists to the Crown but protested Parliamentary interference with American rights |
First Continental Congress |
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America’s first central government |
Second Continental Congress |
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English law commentator |
William Blackstone |
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They brought revival to the American colonies, resulting in the conversion of thousands of souls |
Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield |
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King of England 1760 |
George III |
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English Parliamentarians |
William Pitt the Elder, Edmund Burke |
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Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794) was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia best known for the Lee Resolution, the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain. |
Richard Henry Lee |
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First president of the U.S |
George Washington |
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Convened the Model Parliament |
Edward I |
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The chairman of the committee responsible for drafting the Declaration of Independence |
Thomas Jefferson |
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English nobleman who gained temporary control of the English government and called representatives of the shores to sit together with the noble men of the Great Council |
Simon de Montfort |
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King. Ruled 1154-1189 strengthened the common law in England |
Henry II |
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King. Ruled 1199-1216 tried to curtail the freedoms of the English people |
John I |
