Civics 35 Vocabulary

1215 Document introducing the rights of trial by jury and due process of law

• Magna Carta

• Petition of Right

• Bill of Rights

• English Bill of Rights

consisting of two houses, as in a legislature

• mono-cameral

• bi-cameral

• tri-cameral

• quad-cameral

the idea that government is not all powerful

• representative government

• democracy

• federalism

• limited government

consisting of one house, as in a legislature

• unicameral

• bicameral

• tricameral

• quadcameral

the idea that a government should serve the will of the people

• limited government

• representative government

• popular sovereignty

• democracy

a state that has supreme power with in its borders

• popular sovereignty

• dictatorship

• sovereign

• territory

the institution in which society makes and enforces its policies

• Connecticut Plan

• Popular sovereignty

• sovereign

• government

the principle that insists that government can exist and function only with the consent of the governed

• sovereign

• popular sovereignty

• representative government

• ratification

formal approval of an act, law or document

• consensus

• ratification

• passage

• vote

a plan to satisfy Southern fears that the federal government might be funded through export duties

• Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise

• Three-fifths Compromise

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan