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This document is a major source of traditional English respect for individual rights and liberties. It was a contract between the king and nobles. |
Magna Carta |
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The Third Estate delegates made a pledge to draw up a new constitution when they were locked out of their meeting room. |
Tennis Court Oath |
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A form of government in which the powers of the ruler are restricted by the constitution and the laws of the country. |
Constitutional Monarchy |
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The first ten amendments of the constitution. These amendments protected such basic rights as freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion. |
Bill of Rights |
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This document limited the monarchy’s power and protected free speech in Parliament. |
English Bill of Rights |
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A new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems. |
Enlightenment |
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This document was firmly based on the ideas of John Locke. |
Declaration of Independence |
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This was a measure built-in to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the others. |
Checks and Balances |
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A system where liberty is best safeguarded by dividing government into three separate branches. |
Separation of Powers |
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A system in which power was divided between national and state governments. |
Federal System |
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Who was the first political philosopher to discuss “natural rights”? |
John Locke |
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At the conclusion of the Glorious Revolution, Parliament issued a document that listed the fundamental liberties of the English people. Which document was it? |
English Bill of Rights |
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Which philosopher/statesman wrote the Declaration of Independence? |
Jefferson |
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Which philosopher believed that emotions and passion, not reason and logic, should govern the people? |
Jefferson |
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This document was meant to limit the king’s power and eventually led to the Glorious Revolution? |
Magna Carta |
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Each branch of government checks the actions of the other two (Legislative, Executive, Judicial) |
Checks and Balances |
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French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate on June 17, 1789, to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people. |
National Assembly |
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He was to be recognized as one of the world's greatest military geniuses. |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
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A series of alliances among European nations in the 19th century, devised by Prince Klemens von Metternich to prevent the outbreak of revolutions. |
Concert of Europe |
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One of a group of social thinkers in France during the Enlightenment |
Philosophes |
