CE.2 Fundamental Principles Review

________________________ Government is not all-powerful and may do only those things the people have given it the power to do.

• Limited Government
• Representative Government

• Democracy

• Republicanism

________________________ a system of government in which the people rule.

• Dictatorship

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Anarchy

________________________ Citizens give authority to the government in exchange for the protection of their rights.

• Refusal

• Consent of the governed

• Primary

• Jurisdiction

________________________ Everyone, including government officials, must follow the law.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Democracy

• Limited Government

• Rule of Law

________________________ the people elect public officeholders to make laws and conduct government on the people’s behalf.

• Representative government
• Limited Government

• Monarchy

• Communism

________________________ stated grievances against the king of Great Britain – declared the colonies’ independence from Great Britain – affirmed “certain unalienable rights” (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) – affirmed the idea that all people are created equal.

• Declaration of Independence
• The Virginia Statutes for Religious Freedom

• The Bill of Rights

• The Magna Carta

________________________ guaranteed the rights of Englishmen to the colonists.

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

________________________ established the first form of national government for the independent states – maintained that major powers resided with individual states – created weak central government (e.g., no power to tax or enforce laws); – led to the writing of the Constitution

• The Bill of Rights

• The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• The Charters for the Virginia Company of London

• Articles of Confederation

________________________ stated freedom of religious beliefs and opinions.

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• The Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

________________________ served as a model for the Bill of Rights

• The Magna Carta

• The Charters of the Virginia Company of London

• The Constitution

• Virginia Declaration of Rights