Government is not all-powerful

Government should serve the will of the people

(Great Charter) A potition stating that such fundamental rights as trial by jury and due process of law-protection against the arbitrary taking of life, liberty, or property

Limited the king's power

Prohibited a standing army in peacetime, except with the consent of Parliament, and required that all parliamentary elections be free.

A written grant of authority from the king.

A legislative body composed of two chambers

Colonies organized by a proprietor, a person to whom the king had made a grant of land

A legislative body with one chamber

A joining of several groups for a common purpose

(Representatives) Had the power to raise military and naval forces, make war and peace with the Native Americans, regulate trade with them, tax, and collect customs duties

A refusal to buy or sell certain products or services

Recalled

Government can exist only with the concent of the governed

Established "a firm league of friendship" among the States

Formal approval

Group of delegates who attened the Philadelphia Convention (these men were of wide knowledge and public experience, of wealth and prestige.)

Favored ratification

Opposed ratification

Least number of members who must be present for a legislative body to conduct business; majority

Parties rooted in poor economic times, lacking a clear ideological base, dissatisfied with current conditions and demanding better times

Supported by two parties

A political system dominated by two major parties

Parties that concentrate on only one public policy matter

A political system in which only one party exists

One of the political parties not widely supported

A sample deliberately constructed to reflect several of the major characteristics of a given population

In american politics, the Republican and the Democratic parties

The process by which people gain their political attitudes and opinions

Voting for candidates of different parties for different offices at the same election

The smallest unit of election administration; a voting district

Parties that have split away from one of the major parties

The plitical extension of special-interest groups which have a major stake in public policy