Declaration of Independence/Articles of Confederation

Which document contains this passage

• Declaration of Independence

• U.S. Constitution

• English Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

Base on the passage....where should government get their power?

• from the executive branch

• from elected leaders

• from the legislative branch

• from the public

Which statement completes the diagram?

• People possess natural rights. 

• People establish natural rights.

• It is the role of government to protect natural rights.

• It is the role of government to determine natural rights.

Which complains about George III is stated in the Declaration of Independence?

• He had forced the colonists to accept the practice of slavery.

• He had quartered his troops among the colonists.

• He had required the colonists to trade with French merchants.

• He had failed to defend the colonists in the French and Indian War.

According to Declaration of Independence..what was an unalienable right that government should protect?

• the right to social equality

• the right to personal liberty

• the right to religious equality

• the right to elect government officials

Which section of the Declaration of independence has complains about the king?

• its list of colonial grievances

• its justification of the conduct of the colonists

• its theory of government based on a social contract

• its announcement of American independence from Britain

What is one way that the ideas stated in the Declaration of Independence are evident today?

• equal employment opportunities

• voting rights amendments

• selective service

• term limits

Which complain against the king from the Declaration of Independence would Thommas Paine agree?

• Persecuting immigrant groups

• Persecuting racial groups

• Taking away political rights

• Taking away religious rights

Which statement completes the diagram?

• Because governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, they are incapable of acting against the people.

• Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to take peaceful measures to alter those policies.

• Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

• Because governments derive their powers from the consent of the governed, it is the obligation of the people to obey their government whatever it commands

Base on the introduction of the Declaration of Independence..what was the main purpose of that document?

• to list all the injuries that the English King had committed against them

• to set forth a new American theory of government to help future generations

• to explain how the colonists had repeatedly tried to settle their differences peacefully

• to explain to the rest of the world why the colonists were ending their allegiance to Great Britain.