Constitutional Principles

What is the best definition of the Constitutional Principle "Limited Government"?

• Powers are separated into 3 branches

• Power is shared between States and Federal Government

• The government's power is restricted to only what is needed to function and the people allowed it to do.

• The people have the power

Popular Sovereignty means...

• The people hold the power, or government gets its power from the people

• Powers are divided into 3 Branches

• The people must approve of the government's actions

• Powers are divided between national and state government

Republicanism is...

• This principle assured that the government could only do what the people allowed it to, so that it does not have extreme power.

• It is the idea that the people have the power in government and that the government cannot reign with extreme power.

• This idea so that just one body could not make, pass and enforce laws

Checks and Balances

• This idea so that just one body could not make, pass and enforce laws

• an intricate system of ways the different branches can check on other branches' powers by stopping laws or disapproving ideas portrayed by other branches.

• It is the idea that the people have the power in government and that the government cannot reign with extreme power.

Separation of Powers means

• People have the power, or common people are king

• 3 branches of government, with unique specific powers to perform in government

• Each branch has power to keep each other from becoming too powerful

• Powers are divided between the national and state governments

Federalism is...

• It is the idea that the people have the power in government and that the government cannot reign with extreme power

• the government could only do what the people allowed it to, so that it does not have extreme power.

• power in the government is shared between the states and the federal government with an ability to make laws at each level

• he idea that the rights of the “one” are more important than the desires of the many.

Individual Rights are protected in what part of the Constitution?

• Preamble

• Bill of RIghts

• Article 1

• Article 6