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| Consent of the Governed | 1. The people are the source of any and all governmental power. |
| Limited Government | 2. Government is not all-powerful and may do only those things the peope have given it the power to do. |
| Rule of Law | 3. The government and those who govern are bound by the law, as thise who are governed. |
| Democracy | 4. A system of government in which the people rule. |
| Representative Government | 5. The people elect public officeholders to make and conduct government on the people’s behalf. |
| Charters of the Virginia Company of London | 6. Guaranteed the rights of Englishmen to the colonists. |
| Virginia Declaration of Rights | 7. Served as a model for the Bill of Rights |
| Declaration of Independence | 8. Established the idea that all people are equal under the law. |
| Articles of Confederation | 9. Established the first form of national government for the independent states. |
| Virginia Statue for Religious Freedoms | 0. Stated freedom of religious beliefs and opinion. |
| Bill of Rights | 11. The first ten amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America |
| Constitution of the United States | 12. Affirmed individual worth and dignity of all people. |
| Preamble | 13. Expresses the reasons the constitution was written (Begins with “We the People”) |
| Amendments | 14. 27 of these have been added to the Constitution to date. |
| Congress | 15. The lawmaking body can propose a change to the Constitution of the United States of America. |
| General Assembly | 16. This lawmaking body can propose changes to the Constitution of Virginia. |
| Domestic Tranquility | 17. This purpose of the Constitution of the United States can be described as peace at home. |
| 1st Amendment | 18. This Constitutional amendment guarantees the freedom religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. |
| Petition | 19. This freedom states that the people have the right to have their grievances heard by the government. |
| 5th Amendment | 20. This Constitutional amendment ensures due process at the national level. |
| 14th Amendment | 21. This Consitutional amendment ensure due process at the state level and defines citizenship. |
