| A | B |
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| civil and political rights | fundamental rights belonging to every citizen |
| federalism | a form of political organization in which government power is divided between a central government and territorial subdivision |
| Four Freedoms, 1941 | basic rights that FDR declared worth of fighting a war to preserve: speech and expression, worship, from fear, from want |
| human rights | basic rights and freedoms assumed to belong to all people everywhere |
| independent judiciary | an inviolate judicial branch that serves to protect the U.S. Constitution and prevents the executive and legislative branches from disregarding it |
| parliamentary government | a system that gives government authority to a legislature or parliament which in turn selects the executive from among its own members |
| prime minister | the highest ranking member of the executive branch of a parliamentary government |
| United Nations Charter, 1945 | a multilateral treaty that serves as the constitution for the U.N organization |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | listing of rights developed by the United Nations |
