Foundational Principles
The government is not all-powerful
What is Limited Government?
The Bill of Rights was modeled after this document
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
A change in the Constitution
What is an Amendment?
A group
What is a Union?
The total number of amendments we have
What is 27?
When a government official gets convicted for tax fraud or accepting bribes and is arrested
What is Rule of Law (Lex Rex)?
This document guranteed the colonists' rights as Englishmen
What are the Charters of the Virginia Company of London?
A document that lays out the structure of government
What is a constitution?
Peace at home or providing a peaceful place to live
What is domestic tranquility?
Due Process is found in this amendment
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This phrase in the Constitution is an example of Consent of the Governed
What is "We the people"?
This document was considered weak because it gave too much power to the states, and Congress couldn't tax, raise an army, regulate trade, handle disputes, or enforce laws
What are the Articles of Confederation?
A way to propose a new amendment
What is a state convention?
The enforcement of what is right
What is justice?
This amendment states that the government can only do what is listed in the Constitution
What is the Tenth Amendment?
A form of government where we elect public officeholders to make decisions for us
What is Representative Government?
This document is the home of this quote: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A form of government where people make the rules
What is a democracy?
The establishment of the military is an example of this purpose in the Preamble
What is "providing for the common defence"?
The two steps involved in order to pass an amendment
What are proposal and ratification?
The foundational principle that best supports the term "Popular Sovereignty"
Consent of the Governed
The document that contains the Supremacy Clause, which states that it is the "supreme law of the land"
What is the U.S. Constitution?
A government in which citizens elect representatives to make laws
What is a republic?
Public schools, hospitals, and fire departments are examples of this purpose listed in the Preamble
What is "promoting the general welfare"?
These amendments protect our right to private property
What are the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments?