Chapter 1

Question 1

Legislature

Answer 1

Government responsible for making laws

Question 2

Revolutionary

Answer 2

Favoring great change

Question 3

Thomas Paine

Answer 3

Author of Common Sense

Question 4

Articles of Confederation

Answer 4

First 10 Amendments

Question 5

Magna Carta

Answer 5

Granted rights and privileges to citizens of Britain

Question 6

Salutary neglect

Answer 6

British policy allowing Colonists to rule themselves as long as Britain also benefited

Question 7

Montesquieu

Answer 7

3 branches of government

Checks and balances

Question 8

Sovereign

Answer 8

Self governing

Question 9

Common law

Answer 9

System of law based on accepted customs, traditions, and past decisions

Question 10

Absolute monarchy

Answer 10

Power is inherited through generations

Or by God

Question 11

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 11

Declaration of Independence

Question 12

Enlightenment

Answer 12

Age of reasoning

Question 13

John Locke

Answer 13

Right to life, liberty, and property

Social contract

Question 14

English Bill of Rights

Answer 14

Limited power to King and queen(separation of power)

Question 15

Limited monarchy

Answer 15

Monarch limited to political power

Queen of England