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US Government 1-2 Test

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statement that Parliament forced the king to sign, declaring that even a monarch must obey the law of the land
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first English charter of liberties which included such fundamental rights as trial by jury and due process of law
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The structure of a(n) ______ requires that power be divided between a state's central and local levels of government.
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From its one chamber, the ______ legislature of the Second Continental Congress exercised both legislative and executive powers.
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Some of the 13 colonies were established by ______, under a grant of authority from the English crown.
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organized action to change opponents` behavior by refusing to buy or sell their goods
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idea that government should serve the will of the people
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The power to interpret laws, determine their meaning, and settle disputes within a society is known as ______ is the power to make law and frame public policies..
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Connecticut Compromise, New Jersey Plan, Virginia Plan
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Anti-Federalist objections to the Constitution
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Federal Government
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bicameral
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boycott
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charter
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judicial power
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representative government
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Magna Carta
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Petition of Right
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Under a ______, the government must resign if it receives a "vote of no confidence."
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No one opposed ______ of the Constitution more vehemently that Patrick Henry.
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organized by people to whom the king had made a grant of land available and could be settled and governed in whatever manner they saw fit
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A ______ is the body of fundamental laws setting out the principles, structures, ad processes of government.
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Independent states that agree to form a(n) ______ is the power to make law and frame public policies. may still retain their separate identities.
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agreement that, in Congress, States be represented equally in the Senate and by population in the House
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A ______, often described as a centralized government, is one in which all powers held by the government belong to a single, central agency.
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the colonists organized a boycott of all trade with England, hoping to force the ______ of restrictive laws.
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those for who the Constitution represented a too-powerful central government
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______ is the power to make law and frame public policies.

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