Foundational Principles
What is the vocabulary word for ideas/values that guide our country?
principles
Which document describes the Colonists' grievances with the king (tea tax)?
Declaration of Independence
What is the introduction to the Constitution (as a whole document), that also explains the purpose of the Constitution, called?
The Preamble
The first 10 amendments
What is the Bill of Rights?
Which amendment is this: Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, and Speech?
The 1st amendment
People elect officials to run the government and represent their interests
What is a representative government?
Before the Constitution, this document was the nation's first attempt at a rulebook. It gave the central government so little power that it was nicknamed "weak."
What is the Articles of Confederation
"We the people" is the _____ line of the Preamble.
What is the first line?
This is the final total of amendments that have been officially added to the U.S. Constitution since 1787.
What is 27?
What document does this come from?
“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.”
the Declaration of Independence
Government is not all powerful and can only do what "we" gave it the power to do in the Constitution
What is a limited government?
Replaced by the Constitution
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This line represents consent of the governed.
What is the line "We the people"?
Means officially approved, and is part of the 2nd step of passing an amendment.
What is ratified?
(vocab) Everybody must obey the law, even the people who work in the government.
What is rule of law?
What is consent of the governed?
Written in Philadelphia
What is the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?
This line demonstrates that the US will continue to make progress and improve
What is the line "in order to form a more perfect union"?
Can be made by Congress, State legislature, and national conventions, but NOT THE PRESIDENT (first step of making a new amendment)
What are proposals?
What is Veteran's Day?
What type of government is the type where the people rule?
What is a democracy?
What document established the idea that the people have the right to abolish (get rid of) a bad government by showing America doing this?
Declaration of Independence
This line demonstrates the principles of equal justice and rule of law.
What is "establish justice"?
True or false: Virginia Constitutional amendments are ratified by the people on a ballot.
What is true?
What does 2/3 represent in the process of creating an amendment?
The fraction of Congress needed to ratify an amendment