What principle states the government is not all-powerful and may do only those things the people have given it the power to do?

What principle states the people elect public officeholders to make laws and conduct government on the people’s behalf?

What principle states everyone, including government officials, must follow the law?

What form of government is based upon the principle that the people rule?

Students at Warren Harding Junior High in Des Moines, Iowa wore armbands to the school protesting the Vietnam War. They were suspended by the school when they refused to remove them. The Supreme Court ruled that the punishment violated their freedom of speech. This is an example of what principle of government?

Each November, individuals across the country vote in elections for local, state, and national officials. This is a part of what principle of our government?

A headline such as this supports what principle of our government in action?

Thomas Hobbes stated that governments are created by the process of individuals giving up some liberty to follow the rule by a sovereign/king in exchange for protection of their safety. This idea most closely relates to what principle we have looked at.

"...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address. This quote best represents what principle we studied.