CE.2b Documents

________________ established for the first time the 

principle that everyone, including the king, was subject to 

the law.

• The Magna Carta
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Bill of Rights
• The Constitution

created weak central government (e.g., no power to tax or enforce laws)

• Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Constitution of the United States of America

• The VA Declaration of Rights

Protected the fundamental freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

• The Declaration of Independence

_________________ served as a model 

for the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America.

• The Magna Carta
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Articles of Confederation
• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom

affirmed "certain unalienable rights" (life, liberty, and 

the pursuit of happiness)

• The Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution of the United States
• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

• The Magna Carta

________________________ 

guaranteed the rights of Englishmen to the colonists.

• The Magna Carta
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution
• The Bill of Rights
• The charters of the Virginia Company of London 

affirmed the idea that all people are equal 

• Declaration of Independence

• The Magna Carta
• The Constitution of the United States
• Articles of Confederation

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

Affirmed individual worth and dignity of all people

• Articles of Confederation

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Constitution of the United States of America

Gave Englishmen basic rights and freedoms.

• The Magna Carta
• The Declaration of Independence
• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• The Constitution

maintained that major powers resided with individual 

states

• The Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• The Constitution
• Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom