Historical Documents

5. everyone must follow the law even government officials.
7. document formed the basis for both the Charters and the Declaration of Independence.
11. document guaranteed the rights of Englishman to colonists.
14. How many states are needed to approve a law under the Articles of Confederation?
15. The major powers of government resided with whom under the Articles of Confederation?
16. every citizen votes on issues.
17. This document established the principle of the rule of law.
18. part of the Intolerable Acts was the harshest in the eyes of the colonists.
19. Thomas Hobbes introduced the idea that government was an agreement between people and leaders, which he called this.
20. John Locke wrote that all people were equal and enjoyed these three natural rights.

1. served as a model for the Bill of Rights.
2. The Articles of Confederation was the first form of _________ for independent states.
3. event gave Britain a large debt, which was hoped to be paid off by taxing the colonists.
4. freedom to practice the religion of your choice.
6. By taxing colonists on things that they bought, the British used __________ to try and control the colonists.
8. Thomas Paine based his pamphlet Common Sense off of the beliefs of this enlightened individual.
9. The number of states needed to make an amendment to Articles of Confederation.
10. Government is not all powerful and may only do those things people have given it the power to do.
11. people are the source of any and all government power
12. type of government used by the United States.
13. event led to the beginning of the Revolutionary War with the “Shot Heard Around the World?”