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| Feudalism | A political system in which land is given by nobles to his vassals in exchange for personal allegiance |
| Common law | The accumulated legal opinions of judges explaining their decisions in specific court cases that provide precedents for later judgments |
| Magna Carta | The Great Charter of 1215 that contained such ideas as a trial by a jury of one's peers and the guarantee against loss of life, liberty, or property, except in accordance with the law |
| King John I | King who was forced to sign the Magna Carta |
| Charles I | King who was overthrown in the English Revolution and was then beheaded |
| Charles II | King who was restored to the throne of England |
| Henry VIII | King who broke away from the Church of Rome and established the Church of England |
| William III | King who was invited to rule England in the Glorious Revolution |
| James II | King who was overthrown and forced to flee the country for trying to make Roman Catholicism the established religion |
| Runnymede | Place where the Magna Carta was signed in 1215 |
| House of Lords | Represents the interests of the nobility in Parliament |
| House of Commons | Represents the interests of the people (mostly the middle class) in Parliament |
| Petition of Right | In 1628 this confirmed that taxes could only be raised with the consent of Parliament and guaranteed certain rights of Englishmen such as prohibiting quartering soldiers in their homes |
| Habeas Corpus Act | Gave English subjects the right to a writ of habeas corpus |
| Writ of Habeas Corpus | Orders the government to deliver a person it has arrested to a court of law and explain why he has been arrested or to set the person free |
| Due process of law | Protection against being deprived of life, liberty, or property without the proper application of the laws |
| The Glorious Revolution | In 1688 the bloodless overthrow of James II and invitation to William and Mary to rule England. In return they agreed to Parliament's supremacy and independence from the monarchy |
| The English Revolution | The overthrow of Charles I by Parliament led by Oliver Cromwell and Puritans |
| Oliver Cromwell | Led Parliament to overthrow Charles I |
| Parliamentary supremacy | the principle that the legislative body has ultimate sovereignty or control in a state |
