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Articles of the Confederation and the Constitution
Charters of the Virginia Company of London and the Virginia Declaration of Rights
The Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Principles of Government
What Document?
100
A document that created a weak central government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
A document that allowed the colonists to travel to the New World.
What is the Charters of the Virginia Company of London?
100
Guaranteed citizen's freedom of religion.
What is the purpose of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
100
The people who rule still must follow the law.
What is rule of law?
100
Stated grievances to the King?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
!0 amendments.
What is the number of amendments in the Bill of Rights?
200
Authored by George Mason.
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
200
Proposed and authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
In this system of government, the people rule.
What is democracy?
200
All people have certain unalienable rights.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
One house congress, each state had a single vote, absentee executive branch, and Congress had no power to collect taxes.
What are the weaknesses of the Articles of the Confederation?
300
A document that guaranteed the rights of Englishmen to the colonists?
What are the Charters of the Virginia Company of London?
300
July, 1776.
What is the ratification date of the Declaration of Independence?
300
The people elect office holders to make laws and run the government.
What is representative government?
300
"...In order to form a more perfect union..."
What is the Constitution of the United States of America?
400
These words were written to established a new union where the people have the power.
What is the purpose of the words "We the People" in the Declaration of Independence?
400
Compared to the Englishman, the colonists had the same rights.
What is the Charters of the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
400
To be able to establish commerce, make alliances with other countries, and have full power to levy war.
What are the reasons the colonists wanted freedom?
400
The people are the source of all government power.
What is consent of the government?
400
"...Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our our opinions in physics or geometry..."
What is the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
500
Where powers not specifically delegated are reserved for according to the 10th amendment.
What is the people or the states?
500
The document was modeled after the Virginia Declaration for Religious Freedom.
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
The President of the Declaration of Independence at the time of ratification.
Who is John Hancock?
500
Government is not all powerful and can only do what the people give them power to do.
What is limited government?
500
“...All men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights...”
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?