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| Question | Answer |
| DEMOCRACY | A government that is controlled by the people who live under it |
| INCOMPETENT | Lacking the skill or ability to doing something |
| TO ALLY | To make friends with someone or a group of people in order to fight for a common cause |
| TITLE | The distinguishing name of a person, book, play or poetry |
| COURT OF STAR CHAMBER | A royal court in which people had no legal rights |
| DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS | Is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy |
| FREEDOM OF SPEECH | Freedom of Speech is a right in Canada today only because others fought for it |
| THE PETITION OF RIGHT, 1628 | Spells out one of Parliament's major complaints against King Charles |
| WRIT OF HABEOUS CORPUS | An order requiring that a prisoner be taken to court to decide if he or she is being imprisoned lawfully |
| SATIRE | A literary work in which corruption, stupidity, foolishness, or abuses are help up to ridicule and contempt |
| PILLORY | A device consisting of a wooden board with holes for the head and arms in which offenders are exposed to public scorn |
| ABDICATE | To give up or renounce |
| BILL OF RIGHTS | Section 1 states that suspending law or making law without the consent of parliament is illegal |
| JOHN 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 |
| GLORIOUS REVOLUTION | Occurred in 1688 - 1689 and which murdered James II and William III rose in power |
| TORIES | They were Royalists or King's men who remained loyal to the British Empire or British Monarch |
| WHIGS | A political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom and they fought against the Tories |
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