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Mayflower Compact | Developed by the Pilgrims it guaranted fair laws for all |
English Bill of Rights | This document guarnteed rights of English Citizens and made parliment more powerfful than the King |
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom | freedom of religion for Virginians |
Declaration of Independences | included unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
Articles of Confederation | 1st form of government but national governement was weak |
constitution | a plan of government |
ratification | approval |
republic | a government where citizens elect representatives to make laws |
natural rights | rights people are born with |
compact | written agreement to make and obey laws |
consent of the governed | people are the source of any and all governemental power |
limited government | governemen may only do those things people have given it power to do |
rule of law | government and those who govern are bound by law |
democracy | government where people share in the power |
sovereignty | nations power to make and carry out laws |
representaive government | system of government in which people elect representatives to make laws and conduct government on their behalf |
Popular Soverginty | The idea that people Rule and decide things |
Magna Carta | said that the King was not above the law and was subject to law just like everyone else |
Unalienable Rights | God given rights that con not be taken away |