Week 6 Vocabulary: Founding Principles

a right that is established and protected by law

• Protected Liberty

• Religious Liberty

• Due Process of Law

• Equality of Mankind

•people elect their own representatives to govern them

• Natural rights

• Due Process of Law

• Rule of Law

• Representative Government

the freedom to follow one’s own religious belief

• Limited Government

• Consent of the Governed

• Religious Liberty

• Protected Liberty

basic  rights that all human beings are born with and should enjoy.

• Natural Rights

• Rule of Law

• Due Process

• Equality of Mankind

the approval of the people who lived under that government

• Limited Government

• Consent of the Governed

• Rule of Law

• Representative Government

There are limits on what government officials can do. These limits prevent our government from becoming too strong and threatening our individual rights.

• Limited Government

• Representative Government

• Rule of Law

• Protected Liberty

We are all subject to the same rules, without exception.

• Religious Liberty

• Protected Liberty

• Rule of Law

• Due Process of Law

We each have individual worth, and we are all equal as human beings.

• Equality of Mankind

• Due Process of Law

• Natural Rights

• Consent of the governed

We are entitled to a speedy and fair trial by jury or some other  public hearing before our lives, liberty or property can be taken away. We are entitled to a speedy and fair trial by jury or some other  public hearing before our lives, liberty or property can be taken away.

• Due Process of Law

• Rule of Law

• Representative Government

• Limited Government

a concept involving fairness, equality, and equitable treatment

• Ethical ideas of justice

• Rule of Law

• Equality of Mankind

• Due Process of Law