Vocabulary Chapter 1 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Democracy
Definition: A government that the citizens rule
Significance: It gives society a voice
Civil rights
Definition: Rights of a citizen
Significance: Every person has rights
Magna carta
Definition: The great charter that guaranteed the english people certain civil rights
Significance: Someone has to guarantee the people their civil rights.
Republic
Definition: Country without a ruler nor a king
Significance: People rule them selves the way they think is right
Constitutional monarchy
Definition: A monarchy in which the monarch rules according to the constitution and laws of the nation
Significance: It is better than a strict monarchy
Protestant
Definition: Christian that does no belong to the Roman Catholic or Orthodox eastern church
Significance: Separation
Church of England
Definition: Established church the is lead by the monarch.
Significance: Monarch leading people
Calvinist
Definition: A follower of the beliefs of john calvin
Significance: Believing in something that someone they trust believes in
Absolute monarch
Definition: A leader or a king with unlimited power
Significance: Ruling everything with no one stopping the
Ship money:
Definition: Money that is paid to the king by landowners
Significance: So that king can receive money
Tonnage and poundage
Definition: A custom tax that is collected on the pounds of stuff leaving or entering the country
Significance: So that the government could earn money
To billet
Definition: Homeowners providing soldiers with food and lodging.
Significance: So that soldiers can be supported during war without paying
Title
Definition: A name that shows a persons rank in a society
Significance: So that others will know how powerful or rich you are
Court of star chamber
Definition: A court room which people had no legal rights in
Significance: To ensure the fair enforcement of laws against powerful people
Writ of habeus corpus
Definition: An order that is required by the prisoner to go to court to decide if he was arrested lawfully
Significance: So that the person which is the prisoner would have his basic rights not taken away
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell is hated in Ireland for his actions .
He was a religious freak who tried impose his will upon people and nations and for that he created untold misery
John Locke
John Locke was an English philosopher who believed people have the ability to reason and make good decisions and government is supposed to rule upon peoples approval
Thomas Hobbes
He believed that humans should give up their right of freedom and let a dictator or have an oligarchy that runs the country.
Baron De Monstesqueu
Baron de Montesquieu believed the best form of government was one where power was separated into different branches, King, Parliament and Courts
Voltaire
Voltaire believed that human beings are basically evil and need to be treated that way
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that society had the right to have a new government if they see the current not good
