Civics - Documents Vocab

Match the following

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

• popular sovereignty

• to attach; stick; fasten

• accustomed

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

• rights

• familiar; used to

• affix

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

  governed and that consent can be taken aw

• consent of the governed

Match the following

• good fortune, health, happiness; well-being

• usurpation

• wrongful or illegal taking of power

• confederation

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

  in a date; in modern times,

• welfare

• truthful and straightforward

• candid

• organization of a number of groups united in an alliance

• year of our Lord

Match the following

• whose signature is attached

• undersigned

• to transfer; entrust; hand over

• delegate

• permission, approval, or agreement

• unalienable

• cruel and oppressive government or rule

• tyranny

• not capable of being taken away or denied

• consent

Match the following

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

• transient

• to receive from a source

• sovereignty

• not lasting; temporary

• despotism

• supreme power; authority of a state to govern itself

• derive

• calmness; peacefulness

• tranquility

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• separately or individually; each in turn

• severally

• inclined; likely to; willing to

• dictate

• to say or give orders

• dispose

• obvious; no proof is needed

• self-evident

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

• shewn

Match the following

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

• pretence

• relating to one’s own country; not foreign

• prudence

• caution and wisdom

• endow

• to provide or give

• domestic

• future generations; descendants

• posterity

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• to reveal; show

• entitle

• never ending or changing; everlasting

• political bands

• governmental relationships or ties

• ordain

• to establish by law; give orders for

• evince

• to give a right or claim to something

• perpetual

Match the following

• to make sure or certain

• insure

• unchanging; constant

• consent

• to drive or push forward

• jurisdiction

• permission, approval, or agreement

• impel

• official power to make legal decisions and judgements

• invariably