Vocabulary Quiz A.P. U.S.

History Directions: You are to fill in the correct answer for each of the following definitions below.

1. ________________ This granted Kings absolute power over those they ruled that was granted to them by their God. 2. ________________ When two sides take less than what then wanted in an arrangement to come together on an agreement or deal. 3. ________________ A one house legislature. 4. ________________ When power/authority can be found or is in one place. 5. ________________ A two house legislature 6. ________________ to place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; especially : to give to a person a legally fixed immediate right of present or future enjoyment 7. ________________ To specify one after another. 8. ________________ The political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to absolute state/ government authority. 9. ________________ Government by the few. 10. ________________ Oppressive power. A government in which absolute power is vested in a single ruler. 11. _______________ The absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action. The state of being free.

12. _____________ Incapable of being surrendered, or transferred 13. _____________ All future generations . 14. _____________ A ruler with absolute power and authority. A person exercising power tyrannically. 15. _______________ The organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises authority and performs functions and which is usually classified according to the distribution of power within it. 16. ______________ The power to do as one pleases. Freedom from physical restraint. A right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant. 17. _______________ Government by the people; especially : rule of the majority. 18. ________________ A government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law. 19. ________________ The exercise of the power and function of making rules (as laws) that have the force of authority by virtue of their promulgation by an official organ of a state or other organization. 20. _______________ The distribution of power in an organization (as a government) between a central authority and the constituent units.