Unit 2: Fundamental Principles and Founding Documents

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  1. 3. The first document in history to include that everyone, even a king, must follow the law. It established basic rights and freedoms for all under a government
  2. 7. The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution
  3. 9. This branch of government carries out the laws
  4. 12. The first attempt at a government for the United States. Its greatest flaw was that it left very little power to the federal government while giving too much power to the states
  5. 15. The people elect (choose) public officeholders to make laws and run the government on people’s behalf.
  6. 17. The government is not all-powerful and can only do those things the people have given it the power to do.
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  1. 1. The government is divided into different branches, each of which has their own powers.
  2. 2. The rulebook for the US Government
  3. 4. Document signed by the 13 colonies that announced the separation from Great Britain and laid out the grievances that the colonies had against the King of England. Affirmed that all people have “unalienable rights”
  4. 5. The first three words in the US Constitution
  5. 6. The power of the government comes from the People. The government only exists because the People allow it to exist
  6. 8. Served as a model for the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America
  7. 10. This branch of government interprets the laws
  8. 11. This branch of government makes laws
  9. 12. A change to the US Constitution
  10. 13. The idea that everyone, even the people in charge, have to follow the law
  11. 14. Powers are divided between the state and national (federal) government.
  12. 16. The introduction to the US Constitution