Comprehension Check - Fundamental Principles SOL CE 2A

What principle states that citizens give authority to the government in exchange for the protection of their rights.

• Limited Government

• Rule of Law

• Consent of the Governed

• Representative Government

What principle states the government is not all-powerful and may do only those things the people have given it the power to do?

• Limited Government

• Rule of Law

• Checks and Balances

• Representative Government

What principle states the people elect public officeholders to make laws and conduct government on the people’s behalf?

• Limited Government

• Rule of Law

• Representative Government

• Due Process

What principle states everyone, including government officials, must follow the law?

• Democracy

• Rule of Law

• Consent of the Governed

• Judicial Review

What form of government is based upon the principle that the people rule?

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

Students at Warren Harding Junior High in Des Moines, Iowa wore armbands to the school protesting the Vietnam War. They were suspended by the school when they refused to remove them. The Supreme Court ruled that the punishment violated their freedom of speech. This is an example of what principle of government?

• Representative Government

• Consent of the Governed

• Rule of Law

• Limited Government

Each November, individuals across the country vote in elections for local, state, and national officials. This is a part of what principle of our government?

• Limited Government

• Representative Government

• Due Process

• Rule of Law

A headline such as this supports what principle of our government in action?

• Democracy

• Representative Government

• Rule of Law

• Judicial Review

Thomas Hobbes stated that governments are created by the process of individuals giving up some liberty to follow the rule by a sovereign/king in exchange for protection of their safety. This idea most closely relates to what principle we have looked at.

• Democracy

• Consent of the Governed

• Rule of Law

• Limited Government

"...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address. This quote best represents what principle we studied.

• Rule of Law

• Limited Government

• Democracy

• Due Process