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Which document served as a model for the Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• Mayflower Compact

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Magna Carta

The Articles of Confederation created a _________________ type of government.

• strong
• average
• weak
• federal

In the Articles of Confederation, where was most of the government power placed?

• The States
• The National Government
• The Continental Congress
• The Legislative Branch

One major problem with the Articles of Confederation is that Congress could not ______ the citizens to raise money.

• tax
• ask
• demand
• force

What event "showed congress how weak the Articles of Confederation was?

• Bacon Rebellion

• American Revolution

• Shay's Rebellion

• Constitution

According to the Declaration of Independence who institutes or creates governments?

• The King

• The People

• The Pope

• The President

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

• Benjamin Franklin
• Samuel Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• Paul Revere

Which quotation from the Declaration of Independence best supports the main purpose of a nation's government.

• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all mean are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

• ...[To] secure these rights , governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

• ...[G}overnments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath show, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

• ...[A]s free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.

According to Thomas Jefferson, the power to rule comes from

• God

• the king

• Parliament

• the citizens (people)

How do natural rights, as described in the Declaration of Independence, differ from other rights?

• People are born with natural rights

• people can vote to choose natural rights

• natural rights are given only to citizens

• Natural Rights come from the government