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
Every election in U.S. society reaffirms the principle of
consent of the governed
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 best illustrates how government
is committed to protecting citizen safety
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
Governments create laws and rules to
prevent chaos
One purpose of government is to
protect citizen rights
Elections to choose officials to stand for the people's interests in the work of government reflects the principle of
representative 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 majority of Americans, such as the lack of jobs. Which principle do the protestors most likely believe government violated?
representative government
" Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government. This will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures. " - Article 21, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 The above quote gives the weakest support to which of the following principles?
rule of law
