Roots Of Representative Government Flashcards
1
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The Magna Carta
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Guaranteed important rights to noblemen and freemen
2
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Parliament
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England’s chief lawmaking body made up of elected representatives
3
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Edmund Andros
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Royal governor of the dominion of new England and angered the colonists by ending their representative assemblies
4
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Glorious Revolution
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The end of King James’s rule and the start of William and Mary’s
5
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English Bill of Rights
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Agreement to respect people’s rights
6
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Salutary Neglect
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Hands off policy where governors barely enforced the laws and colonists acting on their own
7
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John Peter Zenger
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Printed criticism of New York’s governor
