7 Principles

A government in which the people rule, the authority of the government comes from the people

• Popular Sovereignty
• Checks and Balances
• Federalism

These are personal liberties (freedoms) and privileges guaranteed to every citizen

• Individual Rights
• Separation of Powers
• Limited Government

The principle of government that states each branch of government has the ability to limit and check the power of the other branches

• Checks & Balances
• Federalism
• Popular Soveriegnty
• Separation of Powers

The Federal government is also known as?

• Limited government
• Main Governemnt
• National Government
• Official government

This principle states that the government should be DIVIDED into 3 branches: legislative, judicial, and executive.

• Separation of Powers
• Popular Soveriegnty
• Limited Government
• Checks and Balances

This is the idea that everyone, citizens and powerful leaders alike, must obey the law

• Limited Government
• Republicanism
• Individual Rights
• Federalism

This idea calls for the people to exercise or delegate their power by electing or VOTING for their political representation

• Republicanism
• Separation of Powers
• Individual Rights
• Checks and Balances

The principle of government that states federal and state governments must share powers

• Federalism
• Republicanism
• Checks & Balances
• Separation of powers

What is the purpose of Checks and Balances in the Constitution?

• To ensure the President maintains control of the country.
• To ensure the means to a revolution.
• To ensure one branch does not become more powerful than another.
• To ensure states do not tax one another

Define Popular Sovereignty. 

• The rule that the government or state is ruled only with the consent of the people.
  
• The right for government to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation.
• The way our congress was elected and the people's say in elections.
• Gives people a right to vote for the representatives of the electoral college.