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Civics ch 5-7
RCHS Civics chapters 5-7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Charter | A written document from a government that grants certain rights. Used in colonial times to grant land to someone with the right to form a colony on that land |
| Constituent | A person represented by an elected official |
| Covenant | A binding agreement made by two or more parties. |
| Indentured servant | A person who voluntarily sold his labor for a set period of time in return for the cost of passage to the American colonies (one-half to two-thirds of all immigrants !) |
| Magistrate | A low-level judicial officer who handles traffic violations, minor criminal offenses, and civil suits involving small amounts of money |
| Mayflower Compact | An agreement to form a political body signed in 1620 by all adult males on the Mayflower before it landed in Plymouth,MA |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Royal Proprietorship | Royal provinces in America, a way the British Crown encouraged settlements in America (11 of 13 original colonies were these) |
| Joint-stock companies | Business ventures chartered that gave rights to settle certain areas in America |
| Jamestown | First chartered settlement in Virginia |
| Fundamental rights, rule of law, representative government, separation of powers | Basic principals of all constitutions |
| who could vote in most colonies? | Adult men who owned a certain amount of land |
| differences between Parliament and legislators in the colonies | Colony legislatures had shorter terms and were required to live in their districts, and become the voice of their constituents |
| Which settlement had the first written constitution in the colonies? | The Connecticut Valley |
| Compact | A formal contract or agreement between two parties or states |
| Law of nature | moral rules that tell people what to do in various circumstances |
| Sovereignty | the ultimate, supreme power in a state |
| Writs of assistance | a document giving governmental authority to search and seize property without restrictions |
| Minutemen | Militia in New England that fought the British in Concord |
| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence |
| The people | Declaration of Independence says that sovereignty resides here |
| The Crown | the British government believed sovereignty resides here |
| Checks and Balances | distributing and balancing the powers of government among different branches so taht no one branch can completely dominate the others |
| Legislative Supremecy | A system of government in which the legislative branch has ultimate power. (Parliament is such a system) |
| Veto | The right of a branch of government to reject a proposed law that has been passed by another branch |
| George Mason relied heavily on the writings of this person in writing the VA Declaration of rights | John Locke |
| Who wrote most of the Massachusetts constitution? | John Adams |
| How did the Massachusetts constitution differ from other states? | 1. Strong Executive 2. Representation of various economic classes (amount of property you had determined who you could vote for) |
| What state had a document like the Bill of Rights? | Virginia |
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