Influential Documents

The idea that people have the right to fair and reasonable laws, and that the government leaders and officials have to follow rules when enforcing laws and treat all people in the same way.

• 12th Amendment 
• Habeas Corpus
• Limited Government
• Due Process

A government document that expanded the powers of the English Parliament and expanded the rights of the people, as well as further limited the rights of the king; written by the members of the English Parliament in 1689

• Common Law
• English Bill of RIghts
• House of Burgess
• The Federalist Papers

A government that has been limited in power by a constitution or written agreement.

• Limited Monarchy
• Anarchy
• Coup de tat
• Limited Government

A government document that limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility; written by the English Nobles in 1215.

• Magna Carta
• Opus Dei
• The Federalist Papers
• Common Sense

An agreement between indviduals that created a government that would provide order and protect the rights of the colonists; written by a group of English Puritans in Massachusetts in 1620.

• Compact
• Mayflower Compact
• Mercedes Compact
• Habeas Corpus

A set of things that people believe they should be free to do.

• Social Contract
• Rights
• Rule of Law
• Magna Carta

A concept that those who govern are bound by the laws; no one is above the law.

• Law of the Governed
• Rule of Law
• Personal Responsibility
• Self-Government

Popular or representative System where the people create and run their own government.

• Rule of law
• Popular Soverignty
• Autocracy
• Self-government

Which principle did NOT come from the Magna Carta?

• right to bear arms

• limited government

• taxation by consent

• trial by jury

Which principle did the Mayflower Compact establish?

• right to petition govt

• rule of law

• govt has power through consent of the governed

• taxation by consent