Read the excerpt adapted from an important document that influenced colonial North America and answer the question.

Question

Having undertaken . . . a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents . . . Combine ourselves together in a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

What democratic principle did this document establish?

(1 point)
Responses

checks and balances
checks and balances

right to petition
right to petition

self-government
self-government

religious freedom

Answer 1

self-government