01.01 Natural Rights
What do Americans value as the basic individual or natural rights?
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
The highway you see here used to be a two-lane road and did not connect to other highways. Over the years, the highway was expanded and new ramps built to connect to other roads and highways. The changes in this image illustrate how government
builds and maintains highways
An example of an important service the government provides to all U.S. citizens is
education
A "limited government" is a government that
has restrictions on the powers of its officials
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration designed this label for the public to be released in 2012. The image of the cigarette warning and a person with an oxygen mask best illustrates how government
is committed to protecting citizen safety
Elections to choose officials to stand for the people's interests in the work of government reflect the principle of
representative government
An example of a location that directly shows government in action is a
school
A government facing protests and demonstrations that are supported by most of its citizens and spread across its territory has lost
consent of the governed
Throughout the city, police officers patrol the streets and neighborhoods of St. Louis. This image (of a police car) best illustrates how government
enforces laws and provides protection for citizens
Rule of Law means that
everyone in a society must follow the laws equally
The Constitution divides the U.S. government into three branches that can each stop, or check, actions of the other branches. This division of power is a result of the principle of
limited government
In 2011, a movement known as Occupy Wall Street began in New York City. The protestors asserted that large corporations had too much influence on government. They blamed this influence for greater financial problems for the majority of Americans, such as the lack of jobs. Which principle do the protestors most likely believe government violated?
representative government
