Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
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- Instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles
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- A ___ supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War
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- Law determining the fundamental political principles of a government
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- Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government (plural)
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- A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
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- Putting a condemned person to death
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- United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln
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- The savage and excessive killing of many people
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- Male ruler of a kingdom
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- A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
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- A member of the ___
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- A titled peer of the realm (plural)
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- A fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries
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- An autocracy governed by a ___ who usually inherits the authority
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- United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years
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