The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.

Form of government where supreme authority rests with the people.

A body of people, living in a defined territory, organized politically, and with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority.

By contract, people within a given area agreed to give up to the state as much power as was needed to promote the safety and well-being of all.

God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth a “divine” right to rule?

The Black Plague was a major catalyst (cause) of what?

Who put forth the notion of the natural rights of all human beings, including the rights to life, liberty, and property?

Whose theories about the separation of powers of government so that the different branches might check and balance one another, were integral to what was to become the Constitution of the United States?

Who said the Social contract defines the rights and power of each person during the enlightenment?

1750 BC, in Babylonia, what is now Iraq, document that included individual worth, fair trial, ideas came from the Hebrew Bible.

Government is restricted in what it may do.

The government should serve the will of the people.

The great charter signed in 1215, in Runnymede, England. Was to give protection to the English citizens against heavy-handed and arbitrary acts by the king.

Largely the work of Thomas Jefferson, proclaimed notions of human rights and limited government, with the adoption of the proclamation the United States was born.

Met in 1754, British Board of Trade called a meeting of the 7 northern colonies, Ben Franklin proposed the creation of an annual congress of delegates from each of the 13 colonies.

Document written by Parliament and agreed to by William and Mary of England in 1689, designed to prevent abuse of power by English monarchs; forms the basis for much in American government and politics today.

What protest did the colonists dress up like native Americans and dump chests full of British goods into a harbor in Massachusetts.

This plan took the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan and made a Congress that would have two houses, one on population, one on equal representation, the compromise helped the constitution to move forward.

Plan of government adopted by the 2nd Constitutional Congress, established " a firm league of friendship" among the States but allowed few important powers to the Federal Government.