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Question 1

what is direct democracy?

Answer 1

 Citizens meet and vote directly on government decisions

Question 2

what is a representative democracy?

Answer 2

 Citizens who choose officials to make decisions on government policy

Question 3

what is the Magna Carta?

Answer 3

Establish in one 1215 the first ever attempt to limit the power of the British king guaranteed all people certain rights

Question 4

What is the social contract theory?

Answer 4

Principle that people enter into a social contract with the government in allowed to be ruled

Question 5

what does consent of the governed?

Answer 5

Principles that there are no supreme leaders all leaders depend on the approval of the people when government fails to protect rights. The people have the right to change the government. 

Question 6

What are natural rights?

Answer 6

Principle that all people are born with certain rights, life, liberty, and property