Origins of American Government Sec 1-3

Idea that people should have a say, through representatives of their choosing, in their own government

• representative government

• limited government

• bicameral legislature

• republicanism

English document dating to 1215 that limited the power of the English monarchy and helped establish the rule of law

• English Bill of Rights

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Magna Carta

• republicanism

Belief that government should be subject to strict limits on the lawful use of power

• representative government

• limited government

• republicanism

• bicameral legislature

French philosopher who argued in favor of the separation of powers

• Magna Carta

• John Locke

• William Blackstone

• Charles de Montesquieu

An English colony under the direct control of the king through an appointed governor

• bicameral legislature

• republicanism

• charter colony

• royal colony

Type of English colony that enjoyed the most independence from Great Britain

• charter colony

• royal colony

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• republicanism

English legal scholar whose book Commentaries on the Laws of England became the basis for law in the colonies

• John Locke

• William Blackstone

• Charles de Montesquieu

• Magna Carta

Document passed by Parliament in 1689 that limited the English monarchy’s ability to enact laws, raise taxes, or keep an army without Parliament’s consent

• Magna Carta

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• English Bill of Rights

• republicanism

Broad set of political ideas about representative government that traces back to ancient Greece and Rome

• republicanism

• limited government

• bicameral legislature

• Enlightenment

Set of colonial laws that limited government and gave all free men the right to choose people to serve as judges

• William Blackstone

• Magna Carta

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• John Locke