What is Government?
Around the world, there are different types of governments. This is the type of government in the United States?
What is a republic?
Not all governments are alike. Each one has different _______.
What are rules?
The Declaration of Independence says that everyone is born with these kind of rights that require no proof.
What is self-evident?
After this war, American leaders met in 1787 to form a new government.
What is the American Revolution?
The Bill of Rights are the first _____ amendments to the Constitution.
What are ten?
The United States is this type of republic.
What is a democracy?
The Founding Father the book mentions by name who helped write the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
No one, including the government, can take away these rights because they are this.
What is unalienable?
This is the introduction to the Constitution.
What is the preamble?
The Bill of Rights list the basic rights of these people.
Who is every person in the United States?
Part of our government's job is to make laws and rules for this.
What is the common good of the people?
What is July 4, 1776?
Name one of the three rights that the book mentions that the government cannot take away from you.
What are "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."?
The first three words of the Preamble of the Constitution.
What are "We the People"?
The books mentions three of the amendments in the Bill of Rights. Name one of these rights.
What is freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right of the press to publish freely?
The government also provides public services and goods. Name one thing that these services include.
What are deliver mail, fix a swing on a public playground, teach you about history, fix highways, spacecraft or planes for the military?
The book mentions that the Declaration explains what the Founding Fathers believed the ___________ of government should be.
What is purpose?
The book defines this as liberty.
What is the freedom to govern oneself?
The main sections of the Constitution describe how our government works, explains how the country's leaders will be elected and ________ and limit the powers of the national government.
What is define?
The Bill of Rights also sets these on the power of government.
What are limits?
Name one things the book mentions that families, clubs, and charities might do to help people in the country as well.
What is that families might help each other when a family is in need, a community group might gather signatures for a traffic light at a busy corner, a local charity might collect money or clothes for people hurt by an earthquake or flood?
The Declaration says that the American colonies no longer accepted Great Britain's __________________.
What is sovereignty?
The Declaration suggests the people can do this if the government fails to protect these rights?
What is create a new government?
There have been this many amendments since the Constitution was first written.
What is 27 amendments?
How many years has the Constitution kept our republic healthy?
What are 200 years?