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19 Cards in this Set
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Common Law |
reflected customs and principals established over time |
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Magna Carta |
major source of traditional English respect for individual rights |
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Due process of law |
the right to have the law work in known, orderly ways |
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Parliment |
England's national legislator |
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divine right |
the claim that the king's power comes from God |
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Glorious Revolution |
turning point in English Constitutional history |
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Constitutional monarchy |
the powers of the ruler are restricted by the constitution and the laws of the country |
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bill of rights |
formal summary of the rights and liberties believed essential to the people
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Enlightenment |
intellectual movement in Europe |
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social contract |
agreement among members of society |
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natural rights |
all human beings have a right to life, liberty, and property |
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separation of powers |
dividing government into three different branches |
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representative government |
citizens elect representatives to make laws and policies |
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federal system |
powers of government were to be divided between the federal, central, state, or local gov't |
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John Locke |
Held a different, more positive view point of human nature. |
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philosophies |
the social antics in the 1700s in France |
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Voltaire |
Francois Marie's Pen name who published 70+ books
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Montesquieu |
a writer who devoted himself to the study of political liberty |
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Rousseau |
passionately devoted to individual freedom |
