Flashcards
The Fight For Democracy and English Civil War
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- 1DEMOCRACYA government that is controlled by the people who live under it
- 2INCOMPETENTLacking the skill or ability to doing something
- 3TO ALLYTo make friends with someone or a group of people in order to fight for a common cause
- 4TITLEThe distinguishing name of a person, book, play or poetry
- 5COURT OF STAR CHAMBERA royal court in which people had no legal rights
- 6DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGSIs a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy
- 7FREEDOM OF SPEECHFreedom of Speech is a right in Canada today only because others fought for it
- 8THE PETITION OF RIGHT, 1628Spells out one of Parliament's major complaints against King Charles
- 9WRIT OF HABEOUS CORPUSAn order requiring that a prisoner be taken to court to decide if he or she is being imprisoned lawfully
- 10SATIREA literary work in which corruption, stupidity, foolishness, or abuses are help up to ridicule and contempt
- 11PILLORYA device consisting of a wooden board with holes for the head and arms in which offenders are exposed to public scorn
- 12ABDICATETo give up or renounce
- 13BILL OF RIGHTSSection 1 states that suspending law or making law without the consent of parliament is illegal
- 14JOHN LOCKE...was the son of a Puritan country lawyer who fought briefly for the Roundheads during the civi war. He became involved in politics during the Revolution and he wrote books about political philosophy
- 15GLORIOUS REVOLUTIONOccurred in 1688 - 1689 and which murdered James II and William III rose in power
- 16TORIESThey were Royalists or King's men who remained loyal to the British Empire or British Monarch
- 17WHIGSA political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom and they fought against the Tories