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The Constitution
The Preamble
Preamble
100
people are the source of any and all governmental power.
What is Consent of the governed.
100
Gave colonists the rights of englishmen
What is Charters of the Virginia Company of London
100
Charters
What is The charters of the Virginia Company of London
100
Tranquility
What is Insure domestic
100
Establish
What is Establish justice
200
Government is not all powerful and may only do those things people have givin it the power to do.
What is Limited government
200
Provided for religious freedom in Virginia
What is The Virginia Declaration of rights
200
Declaration
What is The Virginia Declaration of Rights
200
Justice
What is Establish
200
Union
What is form a union
300
In a democratic system of government, the people rule.
What is Democracy.
300
Declaration
What is The Declaration of Independence
300
Union
What is In order to form a more perfect
300
Military
What is Provide military defence
400
The government and those who are govern are bound by the law.
What is Rule of law
400
Declared us free from Great Britain; affirmed certain "unalienable rights" ("Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."), established the idea that all people are equal under the law, started grievances against the King of Great Britain.
What is Declaration of Independence
400
Confederation
What is The Articles of Confederation
400
United States
What is We the people of the
400
Peace
What is insure peace(tranquility)
500
In a representative system of government people elect public officeholders to make laws and conduct government on their behalf.
What is Representative government
500
First written form of government for the independence states; maintained that major powers resided with individual states causing a weak central government; replaced by the Constitution.
What is Articles of Confederation
500
Regligious
What is The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
500
Common defence
What is Provide for the
500
Justice,Union,Military,Peace
What is J.U.M.P