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Limited government

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Citizens have more of a say

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Rule of law

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Principle that the law applies to everyone even those not govern.

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Consent of the governed

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Gov has authority to govern a nation as long as they put the people first

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Executive branch

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Carries out laws

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Legislative branch

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Law making branch of gov

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Legislature

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Group of people that make laws

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Due process

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Following established legal

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Equal rights

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Right to have the same treatment by the gov

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Enlightenment

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Time period when people used reason to questions tradition

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Natural rights

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Rights all people are born with

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State of nature

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Condition of man when there is an absence of government

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Separation of powers

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Practice of dividing government power into branches

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Checks and balances

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System where the branches of government have power to check the others

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Social contract

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Relationship between people and there government

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Who wrote the spirit of the laws?

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Baron de Montesquieu

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Who wrote the two treatises of government?

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John Locke

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Who wrote the social contract?

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Who wrote the leviathan?

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Thomas Hobbes

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When did the the englighment occur?

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1600-1700s

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Where did the englighment occur?

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Europe

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Why is the enlightenment important?

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Led to the glorious, American, French, Latin American revolutions

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Trail by jury

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Protects you from unfair gov

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Statutory law

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Laws such as speeding, social security

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Common law

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System of law based on precedent and customs

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Constitutional law

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Branch of law, dealing with formation, constriction, and interpretation of constitutions

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Monarchy

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Kings/queens

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Dictatorship

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ABSOUTLE power, gained by force

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Oligarchy

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Rule by rich or few. Power based on military strengh, family power, or religious power

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Autocracy

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Controlled by one, monarch, dictator, etc

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Executive, legislative, judicial

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President, senate, Supreme Court

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Magna Carta

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Who: king John and the barons
When: 1215
Where: England
Why: limit the power to protect the king

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