Civics: Influential Documents

What is the principle of the federal government that allows each branch to limit the power of the other branches?

• Checks and Balances

• Limited Government

• Tyranny

• Self-Government

Which pamphlet published in 1776 aimed to convince American colonists to support becoming independent from England?

• Common Sense

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

Which government document expanded the powers of the English Parliament and expanded the rights of the people, as well as further limited the rights of the king?

• Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

What is the principle that the government has to provide a cause or reason for holding a person in jail?

• Habeas Corpus

• Limited Monarchy

• Consent of the Governed

• Common Law

Which government document limited the power of the king of England and protected the rights of the nobility?

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

What agreement between individuals created a government that would provide order and protect the rights of the colonists?

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

• English Bill of Rights

• Habeas Corpus

What is the term for a popular or representative system where the people create and run their own government?

• Self-Government

• Limited Government

• Tyranny

• Common Law

Which government document listed a variety of reasons why American colonists would be better off separated from British rule?

• Common Sense

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

What was the agreement British rulers signed after the noble citizens demanded the monarchy give some of its rights to 'the people'?

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Common Sense

What is common law?

• law based on customs and prior legal decisions; used in civil cases

• law based on limited government

• law based on rights of the property owner

• law based on sound ethics