CE.2a & B Quiz

Which principle is defined as the people rule?

• consent of the governed

• limited government

• rule of law

• democracy

The government and those who govern are bound by law (no one is above the law)

• rule of law

• limited government

• democracy

• representative government

People are the source of any and all governmental power.

• consent of the governed

• rule of law

• democracy

• limited government

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

• democracy

• rule of law

A city elects a city council to create laws for its citizens

• rule of law

• consent of the governed

• limited government

• representative government

People give their "permission" to the government by voting.

• limited government

• rule of law

• consent of the governed

• representative government

“The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senate shall have one vote.”

-       Seventeenth Amendment, U.S. Constitution

• Representative government

• Democracy

• Consent of the governed

• Limited Government

People rule in a ________________

• Representative Government
• Democracy 
• Consent of Governed
• Limit Government

Limited Government is best defined as:

• the government is not all powerful
• people rule
• people are the source of government power
• citizens elect officials to make laws 

Guaranteed the rights of Englishmen to the colonists.

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom