Civics - Documents Vocab

Match the following

• to attach; stick; fasten

• rights

• the principle that the people must give their consent to be

  governed and that consent can be taken aw

• consent of the governed

• familiar; used to

• accustomed

• the principle that a government’s power is derived from the people

• popular sovereignty

• legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement

• affix

Match the following

• truthful and straightforward

• year of our Lord

• organization of a number of groups united in an alliance

• welfare

• wrongful or illegal taking of power

• confederation

• good fortune, health, happiness; well-being

• usurpation

• English for “Anno Domini,” shortened to “A.D.” when referring to the year

  in a date; in modern times,

• candid

Match the following

• whose signature is attached

• delegate

• to transfer; entrust; hand over

• tyranny

• permission, approval, or agreement

• undersigned

• cruel and oppressive government or rule

• consent

• not capable of being taken away or denied

• unalienable

Match the following

• supreme power; authority of a state to govern itself

• sovereignty

• calmness; peacefulness

• derive

• not lasting; temporary

• tranquility

• to receive from a source

• despotism

• the exercise of absolute power, in a cruel and oppressive way

• transient

Match the following

• old spelling of “shown”; past tense of “to show”

• dispose

• inclined; likely to; willing to

• shewn

• obvious; no proof is needed

• self-evident

• separately or individually; each in turn

• severally

• to say or give orders

• dictate

Match the following

• false claim or display (also spelled “pretense”)

• pretence

• to provide or give

• prudence

• caution and wisdom

• endow

• relating to one’s own country; not foreign

• posterity

• future generations; descendants

• domestic

Match the following

• to establish by law; give orders for

• entitle

• to reveal; show

• political bands

• to give a right or claim to something

• perpetual

• governmental relationships or ties

• ordain

• never ending or changing; everlasting

• evince

Match the following

• to drive or push forward

• jurisdiction

• permission, approval, or agreement

• consent

• official power to make legal decisions and judgements

• impel

• to make sure or certain

• invariably

• unchanging; constant

• insure