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chapter 2
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| enlightenment | movement that spreads the idea that reason and science could improve society |
| monarch | king or queen |
| legislature | a group of people that makes laws |
| precedent | a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later similar case |
| common law | a system law based on plecendent and costums |
| natural rights | freedoms people posses relating to life liberty and property |
| social conflict | an agreement among people in a society with a government |
| colony | a group of people in one place who are ruler by a parent country elsewhere |
| joint stock | investors provide pirtial ownership in a company organized for profit |
| charter | a written document grantiny land and the authority to set up colonial governments |
| compact | an agreement |