CE.2ab - Founding Principles and Documents

What is the concept that ensures the government operates within its given powers and cannot exceed them?

• Rule of Law

• Bill of Rights

• Limited government

• Federalism

Which document asserts that certain rights are inherent and cannot be taken away?

• Bill of Rights

• Unalienable rights

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

Ensures the protection of personal liberties

• Bill of Rights

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• VA Declaration of Rights

• US Constitution

Document where the principle that a king should be subject to the rule of law

• Magna Carta
• consent of the governed
• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
• Bill of Rights

Which document established a weak central government with limited powers, including no power to tax and only one branch of government?

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• US Constitution

Introductory part of the U.S. Constitution outlining the goals of the government.

• Representative Democracy
• Magna Carta
• VA Declaration of Rights
• Preamble

The principle that all individuals, including those in positions of authority, are subject to the law.

• Separation of Powers

• Rule of Law

• Checks and Balances

• Social Contract

A system of government in which citizens elect representatives, or leaders, to make decisions about the laws for all the people.

• Limited government
• Representative Democracy
• Unalienable rights
• Preamble

What replaced the Articles of Confederation?

• consent of the governed
• Representative Democracy
• Unalienable rights
• US Constitution

The authority of a government is derived from the people, who agree to its governance.

• Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• consent of the governed

• Articles of Confederation