Fundamental Political Principles
Government is not all powerful and may only do those things people have given it the power to do.
What is limited government?
This early document guaranteed the rights of Englishmen to colonists and allowed them to create their first government.
What is the Charters of the Virginia Company of London?
Vocabulary word meaning a complaint.
What is grievance?
The name of the first United States Government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
Identify the "He" and the section of the DOI this is found.
Who is
1.King George III and
2. the Grievances
People create government and give permission to be governed so they can live in a civil society.
What is consent of the governed?
This was written by George Mason and served as a model for the Bill of Rights in the Constitution.
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
Document that is the Supreme Law of the land that we use as our government today.
What is the US Constitution?
What are the states?
Place in sequential order
(Earliest to lastest):
a. Declaration of Independence
b. Articles of Confederation
c. The Constitution
d. Virginia Declaration of Rights
What is
D, A, B, C.
This concept was used in Greece and New England’s town hall meetings, where ALL citizens gathered to vote on local issues.
What is direct democracy?
Written by _________.
This stated Virginians had the freedom to practice the religion of their choice (or none at all).
And that the government should have/have no (pick one) religious preference.
(3 answers)
What is:
1. Jefferson
2. the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
3. Have no
Vocabulary word meaning to change, edit, or alter.
What is an amendment?
One weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
What is no power to collect taxes?
What is no power to enforce laws?
What is no power to regulate trade?
Vocabulary:
"the rights that are inseparable from us: they are part of our humanity"
is a definition for this word.
What is "unalienable"?
If a leader steals money from the government, he can be arrested and thrown out of office. He has violated this political principle.
What is rule of law?
(1) This document forced King John of England to obey the law.
(2) And what principle did it teach us.
(2 answers needed)
What is
1. The Magna Carta (1215)
2.Rule of Law?
A person who is elected to office to make decisions for its citizens.
What is a representative?
Reason the US Government cannot pay for anything under the Articles of Confederation.
US Government cannot tax.
Autobiographies, film footage, and artifacts are all examples of:
Primary or Secondary Source?
What are primary sources?
Jennifer Wexton is ELECTED to the House of Representatives. This fact is shown by the principle:
What is representative government?
“We do DECLARE that all and every Persons being our Subjects shall HAVE and enjoy all Liberties as if they had been born within our Realm of England”
Where would you find this quote?
What is the Charters of the Virginia Company of London?
The people who are ruled over.
What is the governed?
What is another weakness of the Articles of Confederation? (Cannot use the same one you used before)
What is no power to collect taxes?
What is no power to enforce laws?
What is no power to regulate trade?
"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." can be found in this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?