Civics Review-Foundational Documents

Two of the ideas in the English Bill of Rights were :

Individual Rights ________________

• citizenship rights

• right to bear arms

• consent of the governed

Ideas from the English Bill of Rights were included in the American Declaration of Independence

• True

• False

The English Bill of Rights was written in the year 1689…which is about 90 years before the Declaration

• True

• False

The English Bill of Rights _________ American views about government

• did not influence

• influenced

Ideas from the English Bill of Rights were included in the _______

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

• 14th Amendment

Ideas from the _________ were also included in the U.S. Bill of Rights

• Selective Service

• Spanish Bill of Rights

• English Bill of Rights

The Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights had NO influence American ideas of government

• True

• False

Magna Carta contained the ideas of _________and common law

• limited government

• monarchies

• naturalization

What is the connection between natural rights and government? 

• government is meant to provide services 
• people have the right to alter government 
• people have certain unalienable rights
• government is meant to protect rights

What are unalienable rights?

• Rights that government cannot take away

• Rights that government takes away

• rights for aliens

• Government is needed to promote equality