Founding Documents

Which document established the FIRST form of national GOVERNMENT for the independent states.

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

Which Document stated the following?

To form a more perfect UNION, To establish JUSTICE, To ensure DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY, To provide for the common DEFENSE, To promote the general WELFARE, To secure the blessings of LIBERTY to ourselves and our POSTERITY.

• Preamble to the Constitution

• Article of Confederation

Everyone, including GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, must follow the law, this is?

• Consent of Govern

• Rule of law

Government is not ALL-POWERFUL and may do only those things PEOPLE have given it the power to do.

• consent of the governed

• limited government

The PEOPLE rule is which fundamental principal?

• democracy

• rule of law

CITIZENS give authority to the GOVERNMENT in exchange for PROTECTION of their freedoms is which fundamental principal?

• democracy

• consent of the governed

This is a definition for ___

People elect public OFFICEHOLDERS to make LAWS and conduct government on their behalf

• representative government

• limited government

This document stated the following: Stated GRIEVANCES against the king of Great Britain. Declared the colonies’ INDEPENDENCE from Great Britain. Affirmed “certain UNALIENABLE rights” LIFE, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of HAPPINESS.

Established the idea that all people are EQUAL under the law

• Preamble to the Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

Which document is the Supreme law of the land

• bill of rights

• constitution

What is the document called that has the first 10 Amendments?

• preamble

• bill of rights