EOC Flashcard Quiz - Constitutional Principles

-Written by Thomas Jefferson

-Gave reasons why the colonists were demanding independence from Britain.

Supreme Court Decision, a person's confession of a crime is not valid if he or she was not first informed of the right to have a lawyer present during police questioning.

-Executive-President

-Legislative-2 House Congress (House of Representatives & Senate)

-Judicial-Supreme Court

Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and right to petition the gov't

Right to bear arms

Where the gov't are divided between the National gov't and the State

• Federalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• US Constitution

• Checks and Balances

-Protections of individual freedoms

-Protections of the accused

• 3rd Amendment

• Bill of Rights

• 10th Amendment

• 4th Amendment

-Replaced the Articles of Confederation

-Established a new national gov't

-Provided the 3 branches of gov't

Prevents any one branch from becoming more powerful than the others

-The people hold supreme power

-Exercised by voting

• Declaration of Independence

• 2nd Amendment

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federalism