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Age of Enlightenment |
A scientific movement referred to by its participants. |
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Charter |
A writen grant by a country's legislative or soverign power. |
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Parliament |
The highest legislature. |
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Compact |
Closely and neatly packed together. |
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Stamp Act |
An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers. |
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Declaratory Act |
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. |
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Townshend Revenue Act |
A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer CharlesTownshend in 1767. |
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Quartering Acts |
A name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. |
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Loyalists |
A person who remains loyal to the established ruler or government. |
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Patriots |
A person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors. |
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John Locke |
An English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". |
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Thomas Hobbes |
An English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
A Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. |
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Glorious Revolution |
The overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland) by a union of English Parliamentarians. |
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English Bill of Rights |
A British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1689 that declared the rights and liberties of the people and settling the succession. |
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Common Law |
The body of English law as adopted and modified separately by the different states of the US and by the federal government. |
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Jamestown |
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. |
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House of Burgesses |
The lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature. |
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
The government set up by the waters of Connecticut. ... It was a Constitution for the colonial government of Hartford and was similar to the government Massachusetts had set up. |
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Declaration of Independence |
The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. |
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Articles of Confederation |
The original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789. |
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Constitutional Convention |
To discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation. |
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Virginia Plan |
A proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. |
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New Jersey Plan |
A proposal for the structure of the United States Government at the Constitutional Convention. |
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Constitution |
A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed. |
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Magna Carta |
A charter agreed to by King John of England. |
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Mayflower Compact |
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony. |
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Due Process |
Air treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen's entitlement. |
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Rule of Law |
The restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws. |
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Limited Government |
A principle of classical liberalism, free market libertarianism, and some tendencies of liberalism and conservatism in the United States. |
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Self-Government |
Government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony. |
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Continental Congress |
A convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies which became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution. |