Q1 Civics Vocab (pt3)

A movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to help see the world more clearly

• Enbrightenment

• Age of Critical Thinking

• Enlightenment

• Age of Deep Thoughts

Rights you have simply because you are human (life, liberty, and property)

• Natural Rights/Law

• Nature's Rights/Rules

• Nature's Valley

• Natural Thinking

An agreement between the people and their government signifying their consent to be governed

• Public Agreement

• Government Rights

• Social Contract

• Social Rights

(1215) a charter of freedoms that King John of England was forced to sign; the king had to obey the same laws as the citizens of his kingdom

• Omega Charter

• Magma Lava

• Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

An agreement reached by the Pilgrims bound them to live in a civil society according to their own laws

• Mayflower Compact

• Pilgrim's Promise

• New World Contract

• Massachusetts Agreement

1689 laws protecting the rights of English subjects and Parliament

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• British Constitution

• English Compact

A pamphlet written to the American colonists in 1775-76 advocating independence from Great Britain

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

Formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Declaration of Independence

• Bill of Rights

• Common Sense

A cruel and oppressive government or rule

• Tyranny

• Democracy

• Monocracy

• Absolutism

The authority of a government should depend on the consent of the people, as expressed by votes in elections

• Rule of Law

• Limited Government

• Consent of the Governed

• Federalism