Documents and Fundamental Principles Quiz Rev.

Affirmed the idea that all people are created equal

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• U.S. Constitution

Led to the writing of the U.S. Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• U.S. Constitution

Affirmed a person's unalienable rights (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness)

• Articles of Confederation

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• U.S. Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

Guaranteed the rights of Englishmen to the Jamestown colonists

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• Articles of Confederation

• U.S. Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

Maintained that major power of government resided with individual states

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• U.S. Constitution

Establishes the structure of today's United States government

• U.S. Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

Established the idea of freedom of religious beliefs and opinions

• Declaration of Independence

• U.S. Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

Established for the first time the principle that everyone including the king was subject to the law.

• U.S. Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Magna Carta

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

Served as a model for today's Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

• U.S. Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

Affirms the individual worth and dignity of all people

• Articles of Confederation

• U.S. Constitution

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Declaration of Independence