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unit 2 study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| direct democracy | government in witch citizens ELECT representatives to make government is to separate power |
| justinian | an emperor who had roman laws organised into a code (book of law) |
| J Lo | english philosopher who develope the idea of social contract |
| montesquieu | philosipher who said that the best way to limit goverment is to seperate power |
| magna carta | document in england (1215) that increased peoples rights; we borrowed the idea of "rule of law" from this document |
| code of hammurabi | frist written code of law |
| natural rights | idea that human beings are born with certain rights; these rights are called "unalienable" rights in our decleration of independent |
| social contract | john loke's idea that people agree to be governed and have laws as long as these laws protect them; this is in the decleration of independence |
| rule of law | idea found in magna carta that says citizens and the goverment must obey laws |
| commond law | body of law based on court decisions insted of written laws; borrowed this idea from england |
| precedent | a decision made in court case that is used to decide future cases |
| parliament | the group of legislators who made the laws in england |
| may flower compact | agreement signed by the pilgrims that created a direct democracy for the plymounth colony |
| house of burgerses | frist goverment in jamestown, virginia- it was a form of representative democracy |
| new england | the economy of these colonies-shiping, trading, fishing |
| middle colonies | the economy of these colonies- lumber,small farms |
| southern colonies | the economy of these colonies- agriculture, large plantations |
| plantation | large farms in the south, many of these farms had slaves |
| triangle trade | route between europe, africa and the americans in witch many diferent goods were traded |
| middle passage | the middle part of the shipping route in witch slaves were treated badly on ships |
| saletary neglect | policy in which england let the colonist govern themselves |
| wrist of assistance | search warrants whenever they want whatever they want |
| dissent | this means to agree |
| consent | this means to disagree |
| continental | the army formed by the 13 colonies |
| constitution | a plan of government |
| ratify | to pass a law is called |
| thomas jefferson | the writer of the declaration of independence |
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