Civics: Foundations of Government

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Did our Founding Fathers invent all the ideas that shaped the American system of government?

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False

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Most of the ideas and traditions that influenced the American government came from the colonist's British heritage.

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True

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Definition: The people are the source of any and all governmental power.

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Consent of the Governed

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Definition: Government is not all-powerful and may do only those things the people have given it the power to do.

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Limited Government

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Definition: The government and those who govern are bound by the law, as are those who are governed.

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Rule of Law

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System of government in which power rests with the people.

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Democracy

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Definition: In a representative system of government, the people elect public officeholders to make laws and conduct government on the people’s behalf.

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Representative Government

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Definition: The authority is divided between a central government and its political units (states).

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Federalism

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Which principle best matches the quote? Use the clues.

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” James Madison, The Federalist 45

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Limited Government

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Which principle best matches the quote? Use the clues.

“WE THE PEOPLE of the United States...do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Preamble to the Constitution, 1787

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Self Government