CE2 Complete Review

What is the meaning of consent of the governed?

• Government is not the source of any and all government power

• The government and the people of the government are bound by the law

• People are the source of any and all government power

• In a democratic system of government, the people rule

What is the meaning of limited government ?

• People are the source of any and all government power

• The government and the people who govern are bound by the law

• In a democratic system the people rule

• Government is not all powerful and may do only those things that the people have given the power to do

What is the meaning of rule of law ?

• The government and the people that govern are bound by the law

• people are the source of any and all governmental power

• In this system of government the people rule

• In this system of government, the people elect public officeholders to make laws and conduct government on the people’s behalf.

What is the meaning of Democracy ?

• In this system of government, the people elect public officeholders to make laws and conduct government on the people’s behalf.

• In this system of government the people rule

• Government is not all powerful and may do only that the people give it the power to do

• People are the source of any and all governmental power

What is the meaning of representative government ?

• people are the source of any and all governmental power

• In this system of government, the people elect public officeholders to make laws and conduct government on the people’s behalf.

• The government and the people that govern are bound by the law.

• in this system of government the people rule

The fundamental political principles shape and define American Constitutional govt.

• true

• false

What document guaranteed colonists the same rights as Englishmen?

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

Which document served as model for the Bill of Rights?

• Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• U.S. Constitution

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

What document stated grievances against the king ?

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• U.S. Constitution

What document established the first form of national government for the independent states?

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• Bill of Rights

• U.S. Constitution

• Articles of Confederation