Unit 5 Vocabulary- part 1

A system people use to exercise authority, distribute power, and regulate conduct of people

• government

• laws

• republic

• shared powers

the written document that created the system of government for our country

• government

• Preamble

• Constitution

• the common good

statements that define how citizens should behave

• constitutional government

• republic

• federal government

• laws

people working together for the benefit of everybody

• the common good

• shared powers

• limited government

• core democratic values

federal, state, and local governments

• Founders

• Preamble

• popular sovereignty

• levels of government

Founders

• the introduction to our constitution

• the power and authority of the government comes from the people

• the people who helped establish our country

• the government of our country

federal government

• the government can only do what the people have given it the power to do

• people working together for the benefit of everybody

• the government of our country

• everyone, including the people who run the government, must obey the laws

a government not led by the hereditary rule (leaders based on birth, but where people hold the power of government and choose leaders to make decisions

• representative government

• rule of law

• republic

• constitutional government

a form of government where people choose representatives to make decisions for them

• representative government

• popular sovereignty

• limited government

• republic

rule of law

• everyone, including the people who run the government, must obey the laws

• powers granted to both the federal and state governments

• federal, state, and local governments

• people working together for the benefit of everybody