Principles of US Government

When citizens given authority to the government in exchange for the protection of their rights

• limited government

• consent of the governed

• rule of law

• representative government

When government is not all-powerful and may do only those things the people have given it the power to do

• consent of the governed

• rule of law

• democracy

• limited government

Everyone, including government officials, must follow the law.

• rule of law

• democracy

• consent of the governed

• limited government

In a democratic system of government, the people rule. PEOPLE POWER.

• consent of the governed

• limited government

• representative government

• democracy

We elect public officeholders to make laws and conduct government on the people's behalf.

• representative government

• consent of the governed

• rule of law

• democracy

This document established for the firsts time that everyone, including the king, was subject to the law. It also gave Englishmen basic rights and freedoms.

• Articles of Confederation

• Magna Carta

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• The Constitution of the U.S.

Guaranteed the rights of Englishment to the colonists

• Magna Carta

• Charters of the VA Company of London

• VA Declaration of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

The document that served as a model for the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution

• The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

• The Declaration of Indpependence

• The Articles of Confederation

The Declaration of Independence was our break-up letter to the country of _______________.

• Spain

• Great Britain

• India

• Italy

In the Declaration of Independence, the founding fathers stated their _____________ against the king of Great Britain.

• wishes

• celebrations

• grievances

• questions