CH 1 Introduction to US Government Crossword

A person's preferences or prejudices
Capable of being supported by example or research
A text that contains a firsthand account of an event or period in history
A text, drawing, or other work created by people who were not eyewitnesses to the events or periods being described
A total lack of government.
A government controlled by an individual or small group with absolute political power
A system of government in which one person — generally a dictator — holds all of the power
A form of democracy in which all people gather together to make decisions
A form of democracy in which people elect representatives to make decisions
An independent state inhabited primarily by a group of people who share a culture and language
The power of a nation-state to determine its form of government.
A type of government in which power is centralized in one location
The plan of government for the United States during the Revolutionary War and for several years after the war
A French philosopher who argued that the powers of a central government should be separated into three different branches.
A document explaining the American colonies' reasons for breaking away from Great Britain
An act of the British government written in 1689 that lists the rights of the people to be represented in Parliament
A Swiss philosopher whose ideas on popular sovereignty and republicanism influenced later political movements.
An English philosopher who argued that people have natural rights
A charter, signed by King John of England in 1215, that established the rights of free English citizens
An agreement signed in 1620 by colonists traveling on the Mayflower. It established a government for the Plymouth Colony
The rights all humans have at birth, which no government or institution can take away.
A law that organized the lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River. It divided this region into territories
A petition passed by the British government in 1628 that lists specific rights that the king could not violate
The right of the citizens of a country to control that country's politics.
An Enlightenment idea describing the relationship between citizens and governments
An English philosopher whose theory of the social contract calls for an all-powerful government that restrains people's worst impulses
An English-born writer and political advocate. Wrote pamphlet titled "Common Sense"