Ch 2 Part 1 Origins of American Government

This document took away absolute power from King John, and all other English Kings

• Petition of Right

• Declaration of Rights and Grievances

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

The idea that the people should have a voice in deciding what a gov’t should or should not do

• Ordered Government

• Representative Government

• Bicameral Government

• Unicameral Goverment

According to the English Bill of Rights, who must approve a peacetime army?

• The King

• The people

• Parliament

• The president

The need for orderly regulation of relationships with others

• Ordered Government

• Representative Government

• Bicameral Government

• Unicameral Government

What state passed the first state constitution?

• Deleware

• New Jersey

• New Hampshire

• Virginia

When was the Declaration of Independence passed by the 2nd Continental Congress?

• June 7, 1776

• May 10, 1775

• September 17, 1787

• July 4, 1776

Having a two house legislator

• Bicameral

• Unicameral

• Separation of Powers

• Limited Government

The Declaration of Rights was sent to George III from what group?

• Committee of Correspondence

• Sons of Liberty

• First Continental Congress

• Parliament

A colony that was subject to direct control from the King

• Propriety Colony

• Royal Colony

• Charter Colony

• Legislative Colony

What was the first representative body in America?

• First Continental Congress

• Albany Congress

• House of Burgesses

• Stamp Act Congress