Founding Principles of American Government

The founders of the United States established the American _________ ________. This was a government by elected representatives based on a written constitution.

• constitutional republic

• Oligarchy

• Precedent

• Natural Law

The Ideas of the Founding Fathers are reflected in the Founding Documents such as...(select all that apply)

• Declaration of Indedependence

• Anti-Federalists Papers

• Magna Carta

• U.S. Constitution

All people are subject to the same set of rules, without exception. No one is above

t h e l aw.

• Natural Rights

• Rule of Law

• Limited Government

• Due Process of Law

All people are born with certain basic individual rights, such as the right to

life, liberty, and property.

• Equality of Mankind

• Due Process of Law

• Natural Rights

• Religious Liberty

All people are born with certain basic individual rights, such as the right to

life, liberty, and property.

• Rule of Law

• Limited Government

• Natural Rights

• Due Process of Law

Government cannot take away our life, liberty or property without a

fair process, such as a trial by impartial jurors.

• Rule of Law

• Equality of Mankind

• Due Process of Law

• Limited Government

Each of us has indivdual worth and we are all equal as human beings.

All citizens are equal in the eyes of the law, entitled to the same rights

• Rule of Law

• Natural Rights

• Due Process of Law

• Equality of Mankind

This is a protected right (guaranteed by law).Each of us has the right to

practice our own religion freely

• Natural Rights

• Rule of Law

• Due Process of Law

• Religious Liberty

This Greek word means city-state. Because of it hilly geography and separate islands, many different city-states arose in ancient Greece.

• Habaes Corpus

• Polis

• Hummus

A self-governing community in Greece, made up of a town or city and its surrounding countryside.

• Quorum

• Kraft

• Assembly

• Polis