Founding Doc. Vocab
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- Magna Carta
- document that protected the nobles' rights and privileges and upheld their authority. Granted rights to landholders.
- Rule of law
- the government and those who are governed are bound by the law
- Bicameral
- a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses
- Monarch
- a king or queen
- Independence
- self reliance and freedom form outside control
- Repeal
- to cancel a law
- English Bill of Rights
- document that stated that the monarch could not suspend parliament's laws; the monarch could not create special courts, impose taxes; every citizen would have certain rights
- 2nd Continental Congress
- meeting where delegates agreed that the colonies must break free from Great Britain
- Ratify
- to vote approval of
- Common Law
- a system of law based on precedent and customs
- Legislature
- a group of people that make laws
- Parliament
- the British legislature
- 1st Continental Congress
- meeting where dekegates sent a document to King George III demanding that the rights of the colonists be restored.
- Mercantilism
- a theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys
- Amend
- to change
- Mayflower Compact
- Established a tradition of direct democracy in the new colonies
- Precedent
- a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision on a later, similar case
- Delegate
- a representative to a meeting