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34 Cards in this Set
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What is the framework of our government?
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Constitution
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Who wrote the Commentaries of the Laws of England?
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Sir Edward Coke
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What did Alred the Great do?
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Established a legal code beginning with the Ten Commandments
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What did King John do?
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Signed the Magna Carta
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What did William I
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Established Curia Regis
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What did Henry II do?
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Established the king's courts
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What did Charles I do?
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His power was limited by the petition of Right of 1628
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What did Charles II do?
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Created the Jury System
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What was the Anglo-Saxons' council of nobles called?
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Witan
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What did John Locke write?
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Two Treaties of Government
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What did John Locke's book justify?
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Constitutional monarchy
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3 principles guaranteed by the Bill of Rights of 1689
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Civil rights, supreme power of the parliament over the monarchy, freedom from arbitrary government
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What did the Petition of Rights of 1628 entail?
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Reaffirmed the principles of the Magna Carta
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What did the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 entail?
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No one can be detained in prison unless charged with a crime
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What were the Bill of Rights 1689 famous for?
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William and Mary would reign under these
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What was the Toleration Act?
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Religious toleration for all Protestants
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English legal system was rationalized by?
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Normans
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What were two principles developed from the Magna Carta?
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Trail by jury of one's peers and justice that could not denied, delayed, or sold to any man
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Whose case established an important precedent for the freedom of the press?
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Zenger
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John Cabot sailed the coast of where, claiming it for England?
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North America
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What did Henry VI do?
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Commissioned John Cabot
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What did James I do?
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Granted a charter for the colony of Virginia
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What did James II do?
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Overthrown in the Glorious Revolution
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Who paid the salaries of the colonial governors?
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Colonial legislatures
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Who was the governor of the Council for New England?
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Sir Edmund Andros
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What did Henry VI do?
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Commissioned John Cabot
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What did James I do?
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Granted a charter for the colony of Virginia
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What did James II do?
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Overthrown in the Glorious Revolution
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Who paid the salaries of the colonial governors?
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Colonial legislatures
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Who was the governor of the Council for New England?
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Sir Edmund Andros
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Where was the first representative government in America established?
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Virginia
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List the two principles established by the Mayflower compact?
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Order should be maintained by the will of the majority, and just laws should be enforced for the general good
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The first written constitution in America was the?
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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Which two colonies had elected rather than appointed upper houses?
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Rhode Island and Connecticut
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