SS.7.C.1.2 Vocabulary Practice

popular or representative system where the people create and run their own government

• common law

• self-government

• due process

• tyranny

law based on customs and prior legal decisions; used in civil cases

• common law

• consent of the governed

• habeas corpus

• self-government

a pamphlet puslished by Thomas Paine in 1776 to convince the American colonists to support becoming independent from England

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

a government that abuses its power

• limited monarchy

• Democracy

• tyranny

• limited government

an agreement made by the people to establish a government and obey its laws

• consent of the governed

• habeas corpus

• self-government

• common law

a principle of the federal government that allows each branch of government to limit the power of the other branches

• consent of the governed

• common law

• checks and balances

• limited monarchy

an agreement between individuals that created a government that would provide order and protect the rights of the colonists; written by a group of English Puritans in Massachusetts in 1620

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Common Sense

the principle that the government has to provide a cause or reason for holding a person in jail

• due process

• habeas corpus

a system of government in which the king or queen shares authority with an elected legislature and agrees to be bound by a constitution or a set of laws, also called a constitutional monarchy

• limited compact

• self-government

• limited monarchy

• consent of the governed

a government document that expanded the powers of the English Parliament and expanded the rights of the people, as well as further limited the rights of the king; written by the members of the English Parliament in 1689

• Common Sense

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta