SOL 2 Historical Documents/Principles of Government

"Rule by the People"

• democracy

• consent of the governed

• representative government

• rule of law

Affirmed certain unalienable rights and the equality of all people under the law

• Charters of VA Company of London

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• Articles of Confederation

Those who govern are bound by the law

• Consent of the governed

• Limited government

• Rule of law

• Representative Government

Government is not all-powerful and can only do what people give it the power to do

• Consent of the Governed

• Representative Government

• Democracy

• Limited Governemnt

Gave colonists the right held by Englishmen

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

• Charters of Virginia Company of London

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Constitution

Guaranteed freedom of religious beliefs and opinions-written by Thomas Jefferson

• Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

People elect others to make laws on their behalf

• Representative government

• Democracy

• Limited Government

• Rule of Law

Left the federal government weak with no power to tax or enforce laws

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Declaration of RIghts

• Articles of Confederation

A model for the Bill of Rights-written by George Mason

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Constitution

• Magna Carta

Our written plan of government- Father of document is James Madison

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Charters of Virginia Company of London

• Declaration of Indpendence